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Eva Ortega Paíno / Laura M. Lombardía. CNIO
Molecular biochemist Eva Ortega Paíno, Scientific Director of the CNIO Biobank, is one of the new members of the Ministry of Science and Innovation’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (CACTI), the body that enables the scientific and technological community, as well as economic and social agents, to participate in matters related to science, technology and innovation.
Internationally renowned members of the scientific and technological community make the CACTI, as well as representatives of the main business associations and trade unions.
Ortega is one of the 13 new members of the CACTI, who have been elected from more than 90 nominations. The other members are Manuel Ausaverri, Shandra Cordobés, Mónica García, Marc Güell, Vicent Josep Martínez, Diego Moñux, Laura Olcina, Josep A. Planell, Nuria San Servando, Luis Sanz, Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia and Izabela Zych.
Ortega became CNIO Biobank Director in 2019. CNIO Biobank is an essential biomedical research infrastructure that houses more than 8,500 samples of lymphomas, gynaecological and digestive neoplasms, breast carcinomas, non-neoplastic cases and primary skin cultures. In addition, the CNIO Biobank has recently launched the first collection of brain metastasis samples, within the National Network of Brain Metastasis, RENACER.
Eva Ortega is also coordinator of the biobanks area within the national platform of Biobanks and Biomodels of the Carlos III Institute of Health; Director of Management of RENACER (the National Network of Brain Metastasis); and Scientific Director of the National Node in the European Consortium of Biobanks BBMRI-ERIC.
She has 30 years of experience in the health sector, in the academia and the biotechnology industry, mainly in oncology. She has been Vice-President of the Society of Spanish Scientists in Sweden (ACES); counselor for Sweden in the CGCEE (General Council of Spanish Citizenship Abroad) and the CRE (Council of Spanish Residents); and is currently Secretary General of Raicex, the Network of Associations of Spanish Researchers and Scientists Abroad.