Dr. Saelices earned her B.S. in biology and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Seville, where her training focused on molecular biology and structural biology. She performed postdoctoral research at ETH Zürich and UCLA, and was an Assistant and Associate Project Scientist at UCLA, where she focused on protein aggregation to develop new potential therapeutic strategies for transthyretin amyloidosis and Alzheimer's disease. She joined the UTSW faculty in 2020. Her lab applies crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy to obtain atomic information of amyloid structures, which is later used to design tools for the clinic. The lab's attention is mainly directed on transthyretin amyloidosis and Alzheimer’s disease.