Science and Technology
in feminine "OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF..."
Esther Fernández Madrid, Spain (1961) PhD in Biology, researcher, entrepreneur and currently Innovation Director at DINA Science, a biotechnology company specialized in Preimplantation Genetic Testing PhD in Biology from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. she was awarded the BM prize in Human Genetics (1991). In 1994, she became an Assistant Gynecologist at the In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz, where she implemented the Preimplantational Genetic Diagnosis Techniques with the help of two FISS research projects. Co-founder of Geniality Genetic Diagnosis in 2008, a biotechnology company based in Madrid, dedicated to the field of reproductive genetics, she was awarded a CDTI project and directed her first Doctoral Thesis. She was pioneer in Spain in the diagnosis in embryos of serious genetic diseases with molecular genetics techniques, such as Huntington disease. She has dedicated most of her professional career to the development of molecular techniques applied to preimplantational genetic diagnosis and genetic counselling for couples carrying "rare" diseases, with the satisfaction of having helped many couples to achieve their desire for healthy offspring.
Susana Rodríguez Madrid, Spain (1973) Graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a degree in Modern Languages and Translation and a Master's Degree in Conference Interpreting, entrepreneur and currently CEO of Kunveno, a company specialising in the development of language technology applied to translation and interpreting Susana is a conference interpreter with a track record of successfully leading innovative projects related to language engineering applied to translation and interpreting. In 2020 she took the opportunity offered by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT and CDTI (Neotec) to bring together specialists in conference interpreting, Artificial Intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience and user interface design (UX/UI) to develop STM, a fully interpreter-centric solution, developed by interpreters for interpreters with interpreters, to provide them with optimal support in the challenging task of remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) and empower them to become relevant players in the future global market of multilingual communication.
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