Núria Malats, MD, MPH, PhD, is the head of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain, since 2007. She has a broad expertise in these fields of research by focusing mainly on pancreatic and bladder cancers. She coordinates several large national and International studies integrating different levels of information, including omics data, in both cancer development and progression by applying AI approaches. The resources of these studies have contributed to further disentangling the complex etiology of these cancers. Dr. Malats has over 300 publications and is external reviewer of national and international funding agencies and first rank scientific journals. Dr. Malats has been a board member of ESUR, EAU Research Foundation, and PanC4. She chaired the EUPancreas COST Action (BM1204) with >250 members. She is now chairing ALIPANC, an alliance on pancreatic cancer research in Spain, and the Research Work Stream of Pancreatic Cancer Europe (PCE) multistakeholder platform.

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