Dr. Federico Rojo MD, PhD

Dr. Federico Rojo (MD, PhD) is a Senior Physician in Pathology at Fundación Jiménez Díaz (FJD) University Hospital in Madrid since 2007, where he is also the leader of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory and the Head of the Pathology Department. He is the Head of the Research Breast Cancer Group, Coordinator of the Cancer Research Area and Scientific Director of the Biobank at the Biomedical Research Institute of the same institution, IIS-FJD. Since 2010, he is also the president of the pathologist group at Spanish Breast Cancer Research Group, GEICAM, and member of GEICAM´s Steering Committee. He completed his training as a medical resident in Pathology between 1995 and 1998 in Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, where he also conducted his PhD in Molecular Biology in Cancer for 7 years in the oncology group, leaded by Dr. Baselga. He enjoyed an international stay during this period at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.

As researcher, Dr. Rojo has been involved in a total of 37 competitive projects (all in oncology, primarily breast cancer), being Principal Investigator; and collaborated in 2 projects supported by the European Commission. He is involved in different national networks of cancer, such as GEICAM, GETICA, GECP, RECTICS, CIBER and the Biobank Platform. Dr. Rojo has published a total of 311 peer-reviewed works in indexed scientific journals related to cancer and biomarkers, in addition to 25 scientific book chapters and 516 presentations at national and international meetings, including the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) or the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO).