Luis Paz-Ares

Chair of the Medical Oncology Department at the Hospital 12 de Octubre, Associate, Professor at the Universidad Complutense and Head of the Lung Cancer Unit at the CNIO (National Oncology Research Center) in Madrid, Spain.

He graduated in Medicine and completed his PhD at the Universidad Autonoma Madrid (UAM).

He was a postdoctoral ESMO Research Fellow in Medical Oncology at the Beatson Oncology Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland; chair of the Medical Oncology Department at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville, Head of the early clinical studies at the 12 de Octubre and Visiting Research Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA.

Luis’s research focuses on lung cancer and new therapeutics; he has published over 200 articles in peer review journals, served as a member of several committees, including ASCO, ESMO, European Organisation of Cancer Protocol Review & the Spanish European Medicines Agency.