The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
http://www.cnio.es/ing/
The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) was founded in 1998 by the Carlos III Institute of Health, dependent upon the Spanish Ministry of Health. The CNIO is managed through its Foundation (Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas Carlos III), created at the same time as the actual Centre. Scientific activity though, is governed through the Centre, by the Director, Mariano Barbacid,, alongside the Scientific Advisory Board. The mission of the CNIO is to conduct research of excellence and to bring the very latest technology in the field of cancer to the Spanish National Health System.
Professor Alfonso Valencia
Professor Alfonso Valencia is a biologist with formal training in population genetics and biophysics. He is currently Director of the CNIO's Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme and also Head of the CNIO Structural Computational Biology Group. He is a member of EMBO, Founder and former Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology, and serves on the Editorial Board of Bioinformatics. He is also the Founding Organiser of the European Conference of Computational Biology, was a member of the steering committee of the European Science Foundation Programme on ”Functional Genomics” (2000-2005), and since 2006 he has been the Co-Director of the new "Frontiers of Functional Genomics" ESS Programme.