Ana I. Caño-Delgado is a Distinguished Investigator and founder of PLANeT BIOTECH the first spin off at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG, Barcelona, Spain. She did a PhD in Biology at John Innes Centre (UK) and was a HFSPO Postdoctoral Fellow at Salk Institute (US). She is internationally recognized for publishing numerous high-impact scientific journals, has received awards in science and entrepreneurship and is an elected EMBO Member since 2016. She is considered one of the 500 most-influencing women in Spain. At CRAG, she leads the Brassinosteroid signaling group supported two consecutive times by the European Research Council (ERC) grants to engineering crops able to grow on severe drought. These achievements are the results of two decades of studies in plant steroid hormones, in which she pioneers the study of signaling mechanisms with cell-specificity. In the context of a climate emergency, her lab works for the translation of these results to crops, including social cereal Sorghum. In addition, Caño-Delgado is an engaged science communicator chasing two specific goals: encouraging women in science leadership and acceptance of genomic edition tools for sustainable agriculture.
