Pura Muñoz-Cánoves studied Pharmacology at the University of Valencia. She obtained her PhD in Biology at the Madrid Autonomous University for work carried out at The Scripps Research Institute, and did postdoctoral work at the University of California-San Diego and The Scripps Research Institute, and in 1995 she joined the Cancer Research Institute (now IdiBell) in Barcelona as a postdoc, becoming an independent group leader in 1997. In 2002 her group moved to the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, and she became a senior group leader in 2007 in that Institution. Since 2008, she was an ICREA Professor and Cell Biology Professor in the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences at the UPF in Barcelona, and later she hold a senior group leader position at Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid. She is a member of EMBO and Academia Europaea. At present, she is a principal investigator in Altos Labs, San Diego Institute of Science. The focus of her laboratory is understanding tissue regeneration in aging and disease.