Santiago Ramón y Cajal, new member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, professor of the Department of Morphological Sciences at the UAB, has been chosen as the newest academic fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine. He will be admitted to the academy in an event which will take place on 28 October at 7 pm at the academy's main offices in Madrid (Calle Arrieta, 12).
The new member will speak on the challenges of the pathological and molecular heterogeneity in cancer and new research paradigms in a speech entitled "El reto de la hetereogeneidad patológica y molecular del cáncer. Reflexiones sobre nuevos paradigmas de investigación". His speech will be followed by an intervention of another academic fellow, Eduardo Díaz-Rubio García.
Ramón y Cajal lectures at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital Teaching Unit, where he is head of Anatomical Pathology Services and takes part in the research projects of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO). He also worked in the Hospital Puerta de Hierro in Madrid.