María Domínguez Castellano (born 1965, Alcántara, Spain)[1] is a Spanish neuroscientist.
She serves as the director of the Department of Developmental Neurobiology at the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante, Spain, a joint institution of Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) and Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
[2] Her doctoral thesis title was "Función del gen asense del complejo génico achaete-scute en la generación de los órganos sensoriales de Drosophila melanogaster" ("Role of the asense gene of the achaete-scute gene complex in the generation of the sensory organs of Drosophila melanogaster ").
[2] In 2008 she won the Alberto Sols prize [es], with the jury citing "the study of the development and formation of the retina as a neural model, a study that in turn has revealed new mechanisms of cancer development"[6] and the Francisco Cobos prize for Biomedical Research.
[8] She is a member of Asociación de Mujeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas [es] (AMIT), the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists.