Angela Nieto received her PhD from Universidad Autónoma in Madrid in 1987. After short postdoctoral stays in Madrid and at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, she joined the National Institute for Medical Research in London in 1989 and returned to Spain in 1993 to lead a research group at the Cajal Institute. She moved to the Neurosciences Institute in Alicante in 2004 as full professor and head of developmental neurobiology. She currently leads the cell plasticity in health and disease program and coordinates the Spanish National Research Council Cancer Hub.
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Nieto, M.A. From embryos to cancer. Nat Cancer 7, 249–250 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-025-01098-8
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