The National Centre for Cancer Research ( es, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, CNIO) is a Spanish research institute. The Centre is situated on the campus of the

Carlos III Health Institute The Carlos III Health Institute ( es, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, links=no; ISCIII) is a Spanish public health research institute, legally constituted as a public research agency (), a type of quasi-autonomous entity under Spanish law. The ISCII ...

in Madrid.

María Blasco Marhuenda María Antonia Blasco Marhuenda (born 1965), known as María Blasco, is a Spanish molecular biologist. She is the current director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, CNIO). Life Bla ...

has been the director since 2011.

History

The Research Center was founded in 1998 as an extension of the

. In 2011, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation granted it the Severo Ochoa Excellence Center distinction, giving the Center the status as one of the foremost research centers in Spain. This award was extended in 2015 and will remain active until 2019.

Research programs

The CNIO integrates resources devoted to basic research as well as research directly applied to diagnosis, pharmaceutics and clinical practice. It consists of 49 research groups distributed in three basic research programs (molecular oncology, structural biology and biocomputation, and cancer cellular biology) and two applied research programs (human cancer genetics and clinical research). These programs are supported by an Area of Innovation which includes a Biotechnology program, offering advanced technological support to research programs; an Experimental Therapy Program, focused in pharmaceutical development, and an Office for Technological Transfer and Evaluation.

References

External links

Official website
Medical research institutes in Spain Research institutes established in 1998 Research institutes in the Community of Madrid {{Spain-org-stub