Dr. Albert Abad Esteve

BIOGRAPHY
Albert Abad, MD, PhD

Internal Medicine specialist
Medical Oncology specialist
European Certification on Medical Oncology
Section Chief of the GI tumours (since 1984 to 2013) Departement of Oncology. University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Catalan Institute of Oncology. Badalona.
Director of the Traslational Research Unit in GI tumours. “Health sciences research institute of the Germans Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP).
Head of Oncology Unit. Campus CIMA. Sanitas Hospitales. Barcelona (since 2010 to 2018).
Medical Oncology consultor. IMOR institute. Barcelona. (since 2018)
Medical Oncology cpnsultor. Policlinica Barcelona. Barcelona. (since 2018)
Dr Albert Abad is the editor of 15 books and it has collaborate in 34 editions on scientific books. Author or co-author of more than 189 peer review scientific articles and more than 250 presentations in International Congres. 
Dr Albert Abad received his MD at the Barcelona University in 1974 and his PhD at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona in 1991 for his investigations on the modulation of the citostatic drug 5 Fluorouracil.
As Director of the Traslational Research Unit in GI tumours at the IGTP, he has been the director of 10 doctoral thesis.
Principal Investigator of 10 official grants. (Main research line on colorectal cancer traslational research and chemotherapy resistance). 
He has been the President of the “Societat Catalano-Balear d’Oncologia” of the Medical Scientific Academy (1992-1994).
Vice-president of the TTD Spanish Group (Spanish Goup of Digestive Tumours Treatment) .
Full member of Sociedad Española de Oncología Medica (SEOM), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) American Association in Cancer Research (AACR) and Europen Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO).
Founding member of the ECO Fundation for the Excelence in Oncology 
He is reviewer for Molecular Therapeutics, Clinical Cancer Research, European Journal of Cancer, Clinical and traslational Oncology and Medicina Clínica. 
Scientific President and member of the organizer committee of the V (1997),  XI (2003) and XXII (2014) TTD International Symposium on digestive tract tumours treatment.
Scientific President of the National Congres of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (Zaragoza 2005).
Director of the advanced course on Traslational Research in Digestive Neoplasms. (16 editions- 2002-2022).
Member of the organizer committee of the Course on Training in Colon Cancer (81d1t11n1-2010-2018) 

Dr Albert Abad is nowadays working in clinical and traslational research in digestive tract tumours.