Adriana Garcia Herrera is the head of the nephropathology area and Chief of the Medical-Surgical Pathology Section in the Pathology Department at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. She holds a degree in Medicine (University of Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia) and is a specialist in pathology (Hospital Clinic, Barcelona). She obtained her PhD from the University of Barcelona (2012) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Thomas' Hospital in London (2013–2015).
Since 2015, she has been an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Foundations at the University of Barcelona (UB). She is also the director of UB’s Master’s Degree in Advanced Competencies in Pathological Anatomy and a lecturer in master's programs on advanced medical competencies: Autoimmune Diseases (UB), Pediatric Nephrology (UB), and Renal Pathology (Rey Juan Carlos University). In the hospital setting, she co-coordinates the teaching session in nephropathology and the virtual master’s classroom on renal pathology NefroAcademy (http://www.aulaclinic.com/cursos/721/aula-maestra-virtual-patologia-renal-nefro-academy).

She is an accredited researcher at IDIBAPS in the group of molecular pathology of inflammatory diseases and solid tumors [(https://www.clinicbarcelona.org/en/idibaps/research-areas/oncology-and-haematology/molecular-pathology-of-inflammatory-conditions-and-solid-tumours/research-lines)]. She has 111 publications in indexed journals and more than 1,000 citations (H-index=21). She has co-supervised two doctoral theses: "Evaluation of fibrosis and the risk of advanced chronic kidney disease in IgA nephropathy" (Dr. L. Rodas, 2022) and "Role of ex-vivo confocal microscopy in the study of renal pathology" (Dr. J. Villarreal, 2024). She has been a member of the research teams in the following projects: 3TR (Taxonomy, Treatments, Targets and Remission) – European funding IMI-831434-2–; project PI17/00080: The role of digital pathology and MRI in the early detection of interstitial fibrosis in chronic kidney disease – ISCIII funding–; and the project Phenotypic and functional characterization of lymphocytes, monocytes, and macrophages using flow cytometry of urinary sediment in patients with lupus nephritis for the prediction of chronic kidney disease – funded by the Spanish Society of Nephrology, GLOSEN group. Currently, she is co-principal investigator of project PI23/00569, "Identifying the map of progression to chronic kidney disease in glomerular pathology," funded by ISCIII..