Leader of the research group Genetics and Genomics of Immune-Mediated Diseases.

Graduated in medicine from Universidad La Salle (Mexico D.F.) in 1985. She worked in the immunology and rheumatology department of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zurbirán in Mexico. She then moved to Sweden where she obtained her PhD in 1994 in immunology at the University of Stockholm (Sweden) with the thesis Murine Models of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Erythematosus, doing her postdoctoral training in the Department of Genetics and Pathology at the University of Uppsala where she obtained, in 2009, the status of Professor. She is a visiting professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden). She participates as a lecturer in the Master in Genetics and Evolution at the University of Granada.

Marta has a total of 230 original papers published, 3 submitted for publication and 67 literature reviews (many of them peered reviewed), as well as 124 national and international papers. I have supervised 16 doctoral theses and 21 postdoctoral researchers. I maintain national and international collaborations, obtained international funding (Alliance for Lupus Research, now Lupus Research Alliance), national (ISCIII, National Plan of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Ministries of Health and Innovation) and European (Horizon 2020, IMI, Marie Sklodowska Curie doctoral networks and a Marie S. Curie postdoctoral researcher). It has received funding for predoctoral researchers (FPI), postdoctoral researchers (Sara Borrel, Juan de la Cierva, Miguel Servet), and my team has a senior researcher funded by the aid of the Junta de Andalucía “Nicolás Monardes”. Marta has been coordinator of the medical genetics area, deputy director of the GENYO center and recently (2024) appointed Scientific Director of the center.