Enrique María Ocio San Miguel

Dr. Enrique M. Ocio, MD, PhD, is the Head of the Hematology Department of the University Hospital “Marqués de Valdecilla” and is the responsible for the Hematology Research group at the IDIVAL Biomedical Research Institute in Santander (Cantabria-Spain). He is also Associate Professor of Medicine in the University of Cantabria. He graduated in Medicine in the University of Salamanca and completed his residency in Haematology and obtained the PhD in the University Hospital of Salamanca. For more than 20 years, he combined his tasks as a physician in Salamanca, coordinating the Clinical Trials Unit of the department and the Phase I Trials Unit of the hospital, with his research work in the Cancer Research Center of the University of Salamanca as the responsible of the New Drugs Development Unit in Hematologic Malignancies. He has published over 140 original papers in international journals, with an H index of 50 (Scopus 2023). His main areas of interest are the study of the biology of multiple myeloma and other haematological malignancies such as acute myeloid leukemia or B lymphoproliferative disorders; and the development of novel antitumoral drugs from the preclinical setting to early phases clinical trials. Among these he has focused on the study of the activity and mechanism of action and resistance of several drugs such as proteasome inhibitors, IMIDs or deacetylase inhibitors, and the study of the immune system and evaluation of novel immunotherapeutic strategies.