Susana Llanos

Susana Llanos is a staff scientist at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) since 2004, specializing in the design and development of high-throughput screens to discover new regulators of p53 tumor suppressor activity. Key research contributions include identifying mechanisms by which newly identified repressors such as MSK2, CRPM2, and RPL37 regulate p53, as well as investigating the mTOR pathway in cellular senescence and its implications for tumor suppression. Previously, Susana served as a research associate at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, focusing on the regulation of p53 by ASPP proteins, and as a post-doctoral researcher at Cancer Research UK, studying p53 activation mechanisms involving ARF protein. Susana began their research career as a Ph.D. student at the IIB Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, examining the oncogenic activity of v-erbA. Susana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences with a focus on Molecular Biology from the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain.