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Dr. María Rodríguez Ruiz
Specialist in Radiation Oncology.
Primary clinical focus on experimental cancer immunotherapy in combination with radiotherapy.
Professional career
Medical degree (2008) and PhD in Medicine (2013) from the Universidad de Navarra. Specialist in Radiation Oncology (2013, Clínica Universidad de Navarra).
Postdoctoral training in cancer immuno-oncology and immunoradiotherapy at the Universidad de Navarra under a Río Hortega contract (2013-2017). Simultaneously, she continued her training by completing the International Master’s in Molecular Oncology, taught by the CNIO (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, 2013 to 2015), and a proprietary qualification in Immuno-oncology sponsored by CUN and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Postdoctoral training in the Immunoradiotherapy Program at Weill Cornell University (NY, USA), 2018 to 2019.
She is currently a clinical consultant in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra within the Central Nervous System Tumors area. She is also a principal investigator in the Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Cima Universidad de Navarra.
RESEARCH AREAS
- She is part of the Clinical Trials Unit and serves as principal investigator in several of them.
- 1 active six-year research period: 2012-2017.
- Principal investigator for 6 national and European projects.
- Principal investigator/co-investigator in more than 100 phase I/II clinical trials.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Research on cancer immunoradiotherapy, with special interest in the abscopal effect (systemic effect of radiotherapy).
- Drug development in preclinical and early clinical phases.
- Biomarker analysis of response/sensitivity using in vitro and in vivo models and patient-derived samples.
Activity
In teaching
- Collaborating Professor at the Universidad de Navarra (undergraduate and graduate students).
- Guest lecturer in the Master’s in Research in Radiation Oncology at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid.
- Co-director of two doctoral theses and supervisor of two bachelor’s final projects.
In research
- Author of more than 66 articles published in international scientific journals. H-index: 32 (WEB OF SCIENCE).
- 4 book chapters.
- Invited speaker at national and international congresses.