Manuel Hidalgo

Manuel Hidalgo was born in Antequera, Malaga, in 1968. He received his MD from the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, in 1992 and his PhD from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 1997. Manuel specialised in Medical Oncology at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, obtaining his license in 1996. He completed his training in drug development at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (USA), where he briefly joined as Faculty. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University in 2001 as Co-Director of the Drug Development and GI Programmes. He joined the CNIO in 2009 to lead the GI Cancer Clinical Research Unit. Manuel is a founding member of the pancreatic cancer research team - a clinical trials group focusing on novel therapeutics for pancreatic cancer. He has participated in the clinical development of more than 30 novel anticancer agents and led the early clinical trials with erlotinib and temsirolimus - two recently approved drugs. Manuel´s work has contributed to the incorporation of molecular endpoints in early clinical trials. His group pioneered the utilisation of personalised xenograft models for drug screening, biomarker development and personalised cancer treatment. He has published more than 240 papers in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been funded by the NCI, AACR, and ASCO. Manuel received an AACR Clinical Research Fellowship and an ASCO Career Development Award for his work on the development of EGFR inhibitors. His most recent efforts focus on novel therapeutics for pancreatic cancer. In 2011, he was named Vice Director of Translational Research at CNIO charged with the mission to foster translational research at CNIO and with a broader implication of the Center in cancer care.