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Current positions
- Scientific Director of Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
- Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and associate director of the Mass General Hospital Cancer Center.
- Head of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at VHIO
- Head of the Oncology Department of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona (1996-2010)
- Chair of Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- Chairman of the European Society for Medical Oncology, ESMO. (2008-2009).
- Member of the editorial board of the following journals: Cancer Cell, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Clinical Cancer Research
- Member of the board of directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Permanent member of the Scientific Council of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and of the Ludwig Cancer Institute
Email: direccio(ELIMINAR)@vhio.net
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Academic Qualifications
- Chair of Medicine (2008), UAB
- Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery, 1992
- Degree in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, 1982
Areas of Research
- Promoter of research into new treatments for cancer.
- Study of new molecular targets and research on molecular therapies to develop new, more efficient and less toxic treatments.
- Development of initial-stage clinical trials with therapies aimed at growth-factor receptors and intracellular-pathway signalling molecules
Prizes and Scholarships
- Elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Distinguished Alumnus of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Rosenthal Award of the American Association for Cancer Research
- Jaime I Prize in Medical Research
- Induction into the Civil Order of Health Care in the category of Merit with Plaque in Spain
- Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Gold Medal Award
Most relevant scientific publications
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Eichhorn PJ, Rodón L, Gonzàlez-Juncà A, Dirac A, Gili M, Martínez-Sáez E, Aura C, Barba I, Peg V, Prat A, Cuartas I, Jimenez J, García D, Sahuquillo J, Bernards R, Baselga J, Seoane J.
USP15 stabilizes the TGF-beta receptor I and promotes oncogenesis through the activation of the TGF-beta signal in glioblastoma
Nature Medicine in press 2012;
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Beroukhim R, Mermel CH, Porter D, Wei G, Raychaudhuri S, Donovan J, Barretina J, Boehm JS, Dobson J, Urashima M, Mc Henry KT, Pinchback RM, Ligon AH, Cho YJ, Haery L, Greulich H, Reich M, Winckler W, Lawrence MS, Weir BA, Tanaka KE, Chiang DY, Bass AJ, Loo A, Hoffman C, Prensner J, Liefeld T, Gao Q, Yecies D, Signoretti S, Maher E, Kaye FJ, Sasaki H, Tepper JE, Fletcher JA, Tabernero J, Baselga J, Tsao MS, Demichelis F, Rubin MA, Janne PA, Daly MJ, Nucera C, Levine RL, Ebert BL, Gabriel S, Rustgi AK, Antonescu CR, Ladanyi M, Letai A, Garraway LA, Loda M, Beer DG, True LD, Okamoto A, Pomeroy SL, Singer S, Golub TR, Lander ES, Getz G, Sellers WR, Meyerson M.
The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers.
Nature 2010 Feb; 463(7283): 899-905
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Gianni L, Lladó A, Bianchi G, Cortes J, Kellokumpu-Lehtinen PL, Cameron DA, Miles D, Salvagni S, Wardley A, Goeminne JC, Hersberger V, Baselga J.
Open-label, phase II, multicenter, randomized study of the efficacy and safety of two dose levels of Pertuzumab, a human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 dimerization inhibitor, in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative metastatic breast cancer.
J. Clin. Oncol. 2010 Mar; 28(7): 1131-7
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Baselga J, Gelmon KA, Verma S, Wardley A, Conte P, Miles D, Bianchi G, Cortes J, McNally VA, Ross GA, Fumoleau P, Gianni L.
Phase II trial of pertuzumab and trastuzumab in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer that progressed during prior trastuzumab therapy.
J. Clin. Oncol. 2010 Mar; 28(7): 1138-44
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Gianni L, Eiermann W, Semiglazov V, Manikhas A, Lluch A, Tjulandin S, Zambetti M, Vazquez F, Byakhow M, Lichinitser M, Climent MA, Ciruelos E, Ojeda B, Mansutti M, Bozhok A, Baronio R, Feyereislova A, Barton C, Valagussa P, Baselga J.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with trastuzumab followed by adjuvant trastuzumab versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone, in patients with HER2-positive locally advanced breast cancer (the NOAH trial): a randomised controlled superiority trial with a parallel HER2-negative cohort.
Lancet 2010 Jan; 375(9712): 377-84
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Tabernero J, Ciardiello F, Rivera F, Rodriguez-Braun E, Ramos FJ, Martinelli E, Vega-Villegas ME, Roselló S, Liebscher S, Kisker O, Macarulla T, Baselga J, Cervantes A.
Cetuximab administered once every second week to patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a two-part pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic phase I dose-escalation study.
Ann. Oncol. 2010 Jul; 21(7): 1537-45
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Ciruelos EM, Cortes J, Cortés-Funes H, Mayordomo JI, Bermejo B, Ojeda B, García E, Rodríguez CA, Muñoz M, Gómez P, Manso L, Andrés R, Lluch A, Saura C, Mendiola C, Baselga J.
Gemcitabine and capecitabine in previously anthracycline-treated metastatic breast cancer: a multicenter phase II study (SOLTI 0301 trial).
Ann. Oncol. 2010 Jul; 21(7): 1442-7
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Bonner JA, Harari PM, Giralt J, Cohen RB, Jones CU, Sur RK, Raben D, Baselga J, Spencer SA, Zhu J, Youssoufian H, Rowinsky EK, Ang KK.
Radiotherapy plus cetuximab for locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer: 5-year survival data from a phase 3 randomised trial, and relation between cetuximab-induced rash and survival.
Lancet Oncol. 2010 Jan; 11(1): 21-8
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Chandarlapaty S, Scaltriti M, Angelini P, Ye Q, Guzman M, Hudis CA, Norton L, Solit DB, Arribas J, Baselga J, Rosen N.
Inhibitors of HSP90 block p95-HER2 signaling in Trastuzumab-resistant tumors and suppress their growth.
Oncogene 2010 Jan; 29(3): 325-34
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