UNAC: Staff

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: Medical degree (University of Barcelona, Spain 1980); Specialty in Family practice (University of Barcelona, Spain 1983); Master of Science in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London (1986); Doctoral degree (London School of Hygiene and Tropical University, [...]

Antonio Agudo specialises in preventive medicine and public health. He graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Barcelona and holds a Master in Clinical Epidemiology from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He completed his doctorate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a [...]

Dr González, Emeritus Researcher in the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in Barcelona, Spain has more than 30 years of experience in epidemiological cancer research, being the author (co) of more than 300 scientific papers. He was the [...]

Carlota Castro is a nutritionist and PhD student currently working in the PREDICOP study (Prevention of Breast Cancer Recurrence Through Weight Control, Diet, and Physical Activity Intervention). She works at Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, at the Catalan Institute of Oncology since the year 2014.She [...]

Eric J Duell, MS, PhD is an epidemiologist from the USA. He studied microbiology and environmental health at the University of California, and received his doctoral training in epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed post-doctoral training at the [...]

Ms Luján-Barroso finished her MSc in statistics in 2006 at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.The main statistical technics used by Ms Luján-Barroso are Cox models, restricted cubic splines, logistic regression and meta-analysis.From 2007 to 2008, Ms Luján-Barroso worked at the Fundació Sant Joan de Déu developing [...]

In 2003, Ms Garcia finished her studies as an anatomical pathology technician at the Miquel Martí i Pol Institute and joined Dr Salas’ group on Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (GEM) at UNAC-ICO. Her technical competence includes molecular biology: DNA and RNA extraction, SNP genotyping [...]

Núria Sala, MS PhD, is an investigator at the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer (UNAC) and at the Translational Research Laboratory (LRT) at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), where she is responsible for the study group on molecular and genetic epidemiology, focusing her research [...]

Paula Jakszyn received her nutrition degree at Buenos Aires University, Argentina in 1999. In 2002, she joined the Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer (UNEC) at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) to work on the EPIC study (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and [...]

Raul Zamora-Ros is qualified in both nutrition and food science and also obtained a Master in Statistics and Epidemiology. He earned his doctorate from the University of Barcelona in 2008. He did his post-doc at the Catalan Institute of Oncology, at the International Agency for [...]

Ms Cayssials studied biology at the University of the Republic (Uruguay), where she obtained her MSc (2010) and started to do research in the field of plant ecology. Later, she obtained a MSc in statistics with an emphasis on biostatistics at the Universitat Politècnica de [...]