Dr. Mª del Carmen Blanco López is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has worked on the design of electrochemical sensors for the detection of pharmaceuticals and tumor biomarkers. In these fields, he has synthesized molecularly imprinted polymers as antibody-mimetic affinity receptors. Her actual research lines involve the development of biosensors based on lateral flow immunoassays (LFIA). Nanomaterials of different natures are being explored to develop methods to reduce false negatives and enable quantification through a physicochemical property. In this field, she has succeeded in coupling optical, magnetic and electrochemical transducers by selecting the appropriate nanoparticles, nanovesicles or hybrid aggregates as immunoassay labels. She has participated in more than 30 funded research projects/contracts, which have resulted to date in approx. 100 publications.

She has been coordinator of the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network ITN- H2020 Break Biofilms project (www.breakbiofilms.com), and a national network on Bioapplications of Nanoparticles (NanoBioAp). She has participated in evaluation committees of European projects of the FET-Open and Pathfinder calls, the European Space Agency calls, and other international evaluation agencies. She is a member of the National Association of Analytical Chemistry, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Spanish Group of Research in Extracellular Vesicles (GEIVEX).