Her areas of expertise include DNA repair, mouse genetics, immunodeficiency and radiobiology.Dr. Franco earned her M.D. and Ph.D. in molecular biology and genetics from Autonoma University in Madrid, Spain. She completed her residency in pediatrics at University of Chicago and performed fellowships in pediatric hematology and oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard University.Her research focuses on the use of mouse models to identify the cellular factors and pathway that repair DNA damage. She is interested in understanding how these factors interact at sites of DNA damage to suppress tumor development. She also aims at defining novel targets for future individualized cancer therapies.