Milagros is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Mueller at the University of Minnesota. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals and Biology, as well as her M.S. and Ph.D. in Behavioral Neurosciences from the University of Veracruz in Mexico. Currently she studies peripheral immune self-tolerance mechanisms in the context of autoimmune rheumatoid arthritis. Her scientific interests include neurosciences, cancer biology, prostate cancer, cell motility, adhesion, metastasis, peripheral T cell tolerance mechanisms, regulatory T cells and T cell anergy. She served for 7 years as the organizer of Brain Awareness Week (BAW) at the University of Veracruz to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Also she served as the organizer of the XLIV National Congress of Physiological Sciences, National and local Student Conferences for the Mexican Pharmaceutical Association and the Forum of Chemistry at Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. She joined EWIS in the Fall of 2017, as she is always interested in engaging and motivating young women to consider the possibility of a scientific career. In her spare time, Milagros enjoys oil painting, cooking for her son and husband, reading books, playing soccer and brewing beer with her husband.