Dr Montserrat Blázquez

Senior Project Officer, EDCTP

Dr. Montserrat Blázquez is Senior Programme Officer at EDCTP where she oversees and manages large-scale international research grants, currently totalling €132 M, mainly in the areas of HIV/AIDS and malaria. The PAMAfrica project is under her oversight. Montserrat also oversees calls for proposals, from application submission and the peer-review process, through to post-award evaluation.

Prior to joining EDCTP, she worked in the scientific publishing sector at the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) in the Netherlands, where she was responsible for the manuscript management and peer-review process of two international scientific journals.

She holds a master’s degree in biochemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and a PhD degree in cell and molecular biology from the Friedrich Miescher Institut (FMI)/University of Basel (Switzerland).