For these events, a scientist of international standing is invited to conduct a seminar or otherwise interact with the CNIO’s team of researchers. Several of these are scheduled over the course of the year and are open to the public. Participants come from different fields, literature and technology included. The aim is to create a stimulating environment that helps to clear minds of stale thoughts and replace them with new ideas.
Distinguished Seminar 30/10/2026
Antonis Antoniou
Personalising Cancer Risk Prediction for Prevention and Early Detection
Distinguished Seminar 23/10/2026
Jack Bravo
Beyond CRISPR: Harnessing Bacterial Innovation for Precision Biotechnology
Distinguished Seminar 16/10/2026
Cédric Blanpain
Uncovering and targeting the mechanisms regulating EMT tumor states
Distinguished Seminar 09/10/2026
Irene Miguel-Aliaga
The sex and geometry of organs
Distinguished Seminar 25/09/2026
Wendy Bickmore
Gene activation from a distance – does 3D context matter?
Distinguished Seminar 18/09/2026
Marjanka Schmidt
The genomic footprint of breast cancer risk factors
Distinguished Seminar 11/09/2026
Mark A. Febbraio
From the track to the clinic. Identifying molecular mechanisms of exercise to develop novel therapies to treat lifestyle diseases
Distinguished Seminar 26/06/2026
Kelly Nguyen
Mechanisms of telomerase complexes revealed by cryo-electron microscopy
Distinguished Seminar 19/06/2026
Hind Medyouf
A Corrupted Niche: Fatty Marrow and Macrophage-Driven Immune Escape as Engines — and Vulnerabilities — of Metastatic Persistence
Distinguished Seminar 29/05/2026
Jolanda de Vries
Dendritic cell vaccines in cancer
Distinguished Seminar 24/04/2026
Megan Sykes
Immune Tolerance in Transplantation
Distinguished Seminar 17/04/2026
Gelareh Zadeh
Identification of a Novel Group of Brain Metastasis
