Professor Pilar Garrido

Pilar Garrido MD, PhD is a medical oncologist and head of the Medical Oncology Department at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, Spain, where she has dedicated her professional life to the care of patients, teaching, and research in the field of thoracic tumors. She is also a Professor of Medicine at Alcalá University Her main areas of interest are clinical and translational studies in lung cancer. She is involved in the Spanish Biomedical Network Cancer Research Center (CIBERONC) and the Health Research Institute Ramon y Cajal (IRYCIS) as PI of the Translational Research Thoracic Tumour Group, building a multidisciplinary programme dedicated to the Identification of predictive biomarkers in lung cancer patients, the impact of the microbiota, the clinical utility of liquid biopsy, and radiomics. She is also highly involved in gender perspective from two different angles: gender medicine in thoracic tumors and the gender gap in leadership positions in oncology.