Eva Ortega at CNIO's entrance. Credit: Laura M. Lombardía / CNIO.
The appointment took place at the Council of Ministers held yesterday, December 27th
Ortega, a molecular biochemist, has 30 years of working experience in academia, the health sector and biotechnology industry
Molecular biochemist Eva Ortega Paíno, scientific director of the Biobank at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), was appointed new Secretary General for Research at the Ministery for Science, Innovation and Universities at yesterday’s session of the Council of Ministers. The appointment is published in today’s edition of BOE.
Ortega has been directing the CNIO Biobank since 2019, an essential infrastructure in biomedical research that harbors more than 8,500 samples of lymphomas, gynecological and digestive neoplasms, mammary 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 Brain Metastasis Network (RENACER), a project for which Ortega also holds the managing direction.
She further acts as coordinator of the biobank area within the national platform of Biobanks and Biomodels at the Carlos III Institute of Health, and as scientific director of the National Node in the European Consortium of Biobanks BBMRI-ERIC. In her 30 years of working experience, she has being active at the health sector, the academia and the biotechnology industry, mainly in oncology. She has been vice-president of the Society of Spanish Scientists in Sweden (ACES); councilor for Sweden of the CGCEE (General Council of Spanish Citizenship Abroad) and the CRE (Council of Spanish Residents); and she currently holds the general secretary of RAICEX, the Network of Associations of Spanish Researchers and Scientists Abroad.