Elizabeth Goya Jorge

Bio

Dr. Elizabeth Goya-Jorge is a Senior Scientist working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Gonzalez Lab since January 2024. Elizabeth grew up in Santa Clara, Cuba. She graduated as a summa cum laude PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2020, under the prestigious Marie Curie fellowship awarded by the European Commission. Elizabeth then moved to Belgium to work as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liège. For 2 years she was at the Department of Food Science, leading the research work in a lab specialized in complex dynamic in vitro simulations (SHIME®) of the gut microbiota of humans and other animals (e.g., pigs, horses). She then spent 1 year in the Laboratory of Immunology and Vaccinology studying the science behind mRNA vaccines and their potential applications in veterinary sciences using rodents and fish as animal models. As a pharmacologist, Elizabeth is passionate about molecular biology and the deep mechanistic knowledge biotechnological methods can unlock. In the Gonzalez Lab, her research interest is to leverage the regenerative capacity of intestinal stem cells to improve small intestine transplantation. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys family time, photography, and traveling.