Dra. Cañas MA finished his Bachelor's degree in Bacteriology and Clinical laboratory in 2012 at the University of Santander (Colombia). In 2013, she completed her master's degree in molecular Biotechnology at the University of Barcelona and in 2017 she completed her PhD studies in Biotechnology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Barcelona. 

She is currently part of the experimental endocarditis research group and she gives advice and external support in the NUTRIGENÓMICA research group of the Department of Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Genomics of the Technical University of Ambato (Ecuador), and is part of the Editorial Board of the Technical University of Ambato.