Elena Piñeiro-Yáñez

Bioinformatician

Hi! I am a bioinformatician with a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). After finishing this degree, and moved by my interested in informatics, I started to work as a programmer and after, as an analyst in a technology consulting company, where I had the opportunity of developing programming skills.

After some years, I realized that I missed the biological component in my work and I started a master’s degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UCM. I then joined the CNIO, where I have been involved in the application of bioinformatic resources to the analysis of omics data in the projects of the Unit, and also in collaboration with other research groups and hospitals.

I have also worked on the implementation of new methodologies in pharmacogenomic approaches using genomic alterations, which led to my PhD in Molecular Biosciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in 2021. During this time, I have also participated in teaching activities in the Escuela Nacional de Sanidad (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid), Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal) and UAM.