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Dr. Rubén Pío Osés

Director of the Division of Cancer, Cima Universidad de Navarra
Principal Investigator of the Translational Oncology group, Cima Universidad de Navarra
Scientific Director, Cancer Center Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CCUN)
Preferential dedication: identification of predictive biomarkers and the development of novel therapeutic combinations to enhance the efficacy of lung cancer immunotherapy

Be part of: Cima Universidad de Navarra Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra
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Professional career

Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Navarra in 1994. Doctor in Pharmacy from the same university in 1998.

Postdoctoral stay at the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) from 1998 to 2001.

In 2001 he joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Cima Universdad de Navarra. At present, he is full Professor and Senior Investigator.

RESEARCH AREAS

He has participated in more than 40 research projects, being principal investigator in 18 of them. Among them, competitive projects funded by Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, European Union, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Government of Navarra and Asociación Española contra el Cáncer (AECC). He has also participated in several research contracts with companies.
He is co-inventor of 7 patents, two of them licensed.

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Role of the complement system in tumor progression and metastasis.
  • Identification and validation of predictive markers of response to antitumor immunotherapy.
  • New therapeutic strategies to potentiate the antitumor immune response.

Activity

As an educator

  • He has published more than 130 scientific articles in international journals.
  • He has given more than 30 invited talks at national and international conferences, including the World Conference on Lung Cancer, AACR Annual Meeting, International Conference on Complement Therapeutics, European Meeting on Complement, International Meeting on Complement, Gordon Research Conference and American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting.
  • He has authored more than 120 conference presentations.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the I, II and III International Workshop: Integrating Genomics in Cancer Management.
  • Evaluator of research projects for several national and international agencies, including ANECA, ACSUCYL, AGAUR, SSPA, Swiss National Scientific Foundation, Salud de la Junta de Andalucía, Cancer Research UK, Institut National du Cancer, Yorkside Cancer Research, Sorbonne Université, Poland National Cancer Center, Institut National du Cancer, Fondazione AIRC per la Ricerca Sul Cancro, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Austrian Science Fund-FWF, and Worldwide Cancer Research.
  • Evaluator for more than 45 international scientific journals.

As a researcher

  • Full Professor of Biochemistry.
  • Coordinator of the first year of the Medicine degree at the University of Navarra from 2011 to 2023.
  • He has supervised 12 doctoral theses, all of them with the highest qualification. He has supervised 9 master works and numerous undergraduate works.
  • He has collaborated in the writing of the textbook Biomedical Cell Biology.
  • He has given more than 25 teaching, training or dissemination talks at Universities, Hospitals, Institutes and Cultural Centers.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress of Oncology for Students.
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Reconocimientos

  • The Fellows Award for Research Excellence 2001 (FARE 2001). National Institutes of Health (NIH). Bethesda, MD.
  • Career Development Award in Translational Lung Cancer Research from AACR and the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation. Orlando, Fl.
  • VI Prof. Durantez- Fundacion LAIR Award to the best original article in immunology.
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