The European Commission has awarded a scholarship "Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks" to Iñigo Clemente, former student of the Degree of Biochemistry (2021) and of the Master's Degree in Computational Methods in Science (2022) of the School of Sciences. Clemente will carry out in the next years the thesis doctoral degree at the Western University of Brest (Brittany, France).

"This concession has been a before and after in my life. At staff, I have always lived in Pamplona and for the first time I see myself away from home and in a foreign country. On an academic level, I meeting am faced with a unique opportunity and with the responsibility of giving the best of myself to take advantage of it. I think it will mean an exponential growth in my knowledge and abilities".

Iñigo's thesis is part of a three-year European project (SIGNATURE) that has as goal the data analysis from single cell techniques, from patients with inflammatory autoimmune diseases. "These are techniques in which you get to study cell by cell in isolation, so you get huge amounts of data from each sample".

Clemente's research will focus on mathematics to improve current diagnostic and prognostic techniques. "We are going to try to treat data transcriptomics of patients and find the optimal mathematical transformations to be able to diagnose correctly, accurately and quickly."

For Iñigo, the management of data in science is essential and laboratories are increasingly incorporating professionals with this training. "In the medical research , techniques have improved a lot in recent years and generate a large number of data, but you also have to know how to handle them and give them the meaning they have in the biological context".