Guillermo Menendez graduated as a Chemist from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2001. After working as a technician in the Materials Science Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California for two years, he returned to Oviedo in 2003 to pursue a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. As part of his programme he completed an undergraduate research project as an Erasmus student in Francesco Blasi's Molecular Genetics Laboratory of the Istituto di Ricerca San Raffaele, in Milan, Italy. In August 2006, he started his PhD project in Giampietro Schiavo's Molecular Neuropathobiology Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, where he adapted a microfluidic cell culture device to the study of long-range axonal transport in motor and sensory neurons. He is currently characterizing the signalling properties of axonal neurotrophin carriers, and their dependence on Rab7 activity.