José Manuel Castro Tubío

Dr. Jose Tubio (Spain, 1978) is author of more than 10 papers in the high-impact journals Science, Nature and Nature Genetics. For the last years, he has carried out his research at the forefront of cancer genomics, being involved in the discovery of new cancer genes in haematological cancers and bone cancers, the identification of new mutational mechanisms in cancer development, the characterization of the evolutionary dynamics of metastasis, and the identification of mutational processes and genes that drive transmissible cancers. Noteworthy, the research he has carried out in the field of cancer retrotransposition is changing our understanding of the role that retrotransposons play in cancer. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, which focused on discovering the genetic mechanisms driving transmissible cancers.