María José Calasanz

Dr. María José Calasanz (Tafalla, Navarra, 1959) studied Biology at the University of Navarra and received her PhD from the same university in 1988. Cima Lab Diagnostics, the laboratory she co-directs, has already performed more than 80,000 genetic analyses requested by hospitals and health centers. At present, they receive more than 10,000 patient samples a year from all over Spain and other countries to perform genetic diagnoses of leukemias, lymphomas and other genetic diseases with the most advanced, precise and efficient technologies.

This laboratory of the University of Navarra is a national reference center in hematological neoplasms and provides technical support to national research groups and Thematic Cancer Networks (RTICC). The availability of this laboratory in Navarra allows patients with cancer and leukemia to have a rapid and accurate diagnosis that facilitates the success of their treatment and cure.

Professor María José Calasanz has taught Biostatistics, Experimental Design, Genetics and Cytogenetics for more than 30 years to biologists, biochemists and physicians. She has supervised more than a dozen doctoral theses, has published more than 200 articles in international journals and has been invited to give more than 250 scientific conferences around the world. He has four six-year research periods and belongs to a large number of national and international Scientific Societies and Expert Commissions.