Elena Serrano Carballal

Elena Serrano Carballal began their work experience in 1995 as a predoctoral fellow at CBMSO. Elena then became a postdoctoral fellow at the Universitat de Barcelona / Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in 2004. In the same year, they joined IIB Sant Pau - Fundació Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau - Centre CERCA as a bioinformatics specialist. Over the years, Elena held various roles at IIB Sant Pau, including Coordinator of Scientific and Technical Services Platforms and Responsible for the Genomics and Transcriptomics Platform. From 2012 to 2023, they served as the Scientific Director of Biobanco IIB Sant Pau. Currently, Elena is the Head of the High Technology Unit at Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), beginning in 2023.

Elena Serrano Carballal has a postgraduate degree in Genómica, Proteómica y Bioinformática from the Universitat de Barcelona, which they completed in 2004. Prior to that, they obtained a doctoral degree in Ciencias Biológicas with a specialization in Biología Molecular from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, which they achieved between 1997 and 2003.