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Cristina Ayala
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Cristina Ayala was born and grew up in Bogota, Colombia and obtained a B.Sc. in Bacteriology at the Universidad Javeriana in her home city. She then spent several years in Spain, gaining an M.Sc. in Tropical Parasitology from the Universidad de Valencia before carrying out postgraduate studies in bone marrow transplants at the Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena in Seville and molecular virology at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She also studied microbiology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat in Heidelberg, Germany before returning to Colombia to work as a bacteriologist and subsequently become head of the blood bank at the Club Noel children's hospital in Cali. After moving to Belo Horizonte and working as a language translator and interpreter for six years, she came to Scotland in 2002 and worked at the New Royal Infirmary and Edinburgh University before setting up Xeroshield with her husband Bruce in 2005. In 2010-11 she did an M.Sc. In international Health at Queen Margaret University. Her dissertation research involved fieldwork in Medellin, Colombia where we worked in communities affected by dengue fever, one of Xeroshield's main research interests.
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