Soraya Torres obtained her certification as a technician in Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Technician at the Institut La Guineueta in Barcelona in 2014. She subsequently worked as a laboratory technician in the department of hemostasis and hemotherapy at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.
Since June 2017 she works in the Sant Pau Memory Unit where her principal responsibilities include the processing of biological samples, analysis of biological markers in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma through ELISA techniques and the ultrasensitive immunoassay platform (SIMOA), DNA and RNA extractions, and Sanger sequencing, to approach the early diagnosis in different neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, aside from research, it is in charge of the management and organization of the laboratory, as well as the supervision of the rest of the contracted technicians and trainee technicians.
