Verónica Jiménez Sábado

Dr. Verónica Jiménez Sábado obtained her Ph.D. in Medicine and translational research from Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). She performed her Ph.D. research supervised by Dr. Leif Hove-Madsen at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona. During her Ph.D. studies, she participated in two projects on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in atrial fibrillation (AF) and analyzed the influence of sex and different risk SNPs on calcium homeostasis in native human atrial myocytes from patients with and without AF.

Verónica is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Tibbits laboratory, located at Cellular and Regenerative Medicine Centre (CRMC) at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, and she is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University. Her research as a postdoctoral fellow is focused on work with atrial cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs-aCMs) harbouring these risk SNPs associated with AF. She is interested in associating these risk SNPs with specific functional defects to contribute to the improvement of the genetic criteria for precision medicine and personalized treatment.

Recent publications.