Short biography
Marcos Malumbres studied Biology at the Universidad de Navarra and obtained the PhD by the Universidad de León in 1993. He moved to the New York University Medical Center for posdoctoral training for 4 years and, in 1998, joined M. Barbacid’s lab in the newly created Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid. He obtained a Staff Scientist position at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and was appointed senior group leader at CNIO in 2004. He moved to the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) as director of the Systems Oncology Program and Cancer Cell Cycle group leader. Dr. Malumbres has authored more than 200 international articles including relevant contributions on the function of key cell cycle regulators and their relevance in cancer therapy. He was elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2016 and received the Gold Medal of the Spanish Association against cancer in 2019.
