Numerary Member
Health Sciences: Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
Date of admission: September 28, 2023
Admission speech: «A Personal Vision of Epigenetics: From Biology to Medical Application»
Reply speech: H.E. Dr. Carol Moreno Atanasio, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
Outstanding career: A global reference in epigenetics and biomedicine, her discoveries on the molecular mechanisms of cancer have had a decisive impact on diagnosis and personalized therapies.
Dr. MANUEL ESTELLER BADOSA
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATION
- Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (UB).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- He is one of the international leaders in epigenetics and cancer research.
- Professor of Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB).
- Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).
- After his training at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, and the Johns Hopkins University Cancer Center, he founded in Madrid the Epigenetics Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), the first laboratory in Europe dedicated to researching this discipline applied to oncology.
- After directing the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program (PEBC) at the Bellvitge Biomedical Campus, he is currently Director of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC) in Barcelona.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of more than 600 publications, considered by Stanford University as one of the most cited scientists worldwide.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Carmen and Severo Ochoa Award for Research in Molecular Biology.
- National Genetics Award.
- Rei Jaume I Award.
- National Research Award of the Government of Catalonia.
- International Catalonia Prize.
