Irene Miguel-Aliaga

Irene Miguel-Aliaga
Miguel-Aliaga in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (DPhil)
AwardsEMBO Member (2017)
Suffrage Science award (2018)
Scientific career
InstitutionsImperial College London
National Institute for Medical Research
University of Cambridge
Harvard University
Linköping University
ThesisSpinal muscular atrophy : of flies, worms and men (2000)
Doctoral advisorKay Davies
Websitewww.imperial.ac.uk/people/i.miguel-aliaga

Irene Miguel-Aliaga FRS FMedSci is a Spanish-British physiologist who is Professor of Genetics and Physiology at Imperial College London. Her research investigates the plasticity of adult organs, and why certain organs change shape in response to environmental changes. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.