Dr. Carmenza Spadafora holds a Bachellor of Science that she obtained studying in the Department of Chemistry of the Eastern Michigan University, USA. Her PhD was obtained from the University of Granada, Spain, conducting research in the Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine “López-Neyra”.
After a first postdoctoral training at the University of Central Florida she moved to the Walter Reed Army of Institute of Research to work with now Ret COL José A. Stoute in the identification of the “X Receptor” of malaria.