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Margarita del Val Latorre (born 28 September 1959) is a Spanish chemist, virologist and immunologist,  who researches the immune response to infectious viruses for the Spanish National Research Council and researches at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre.

She was also a efficiency advocate for the use of vaccines and quarantine in cases of epidemics like the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Biography
Margarita Del Val is a doctor who specialises in biochemistry and molecular biology for the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She studied a Bachelor's Degree from 1976 to 1981 and later completed her thesis, also at UAM, for the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Centre. Her mother and father were doctors in chemistry and raised Del Val in an intellectual and scientific environment.

She did her post-doctoral stay in Germany, starting in 1986,