The IDIBAPS Steering Committee has approved the leadership transition of the research group 'Signal Transduction, Intracellular Compartments and Cancer'. Joan Montero is the new group leader, succeeding Neus Agell, who has chosen to step down from the position. Agell will remain in the group as an R3A researcher. The group also changes its name and will now be known as Cell biology, intracellular compartments and cancer.
Joan Montero holds degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at the same university and shortly thereafter moved to the United States for a postdoctoral stay at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School. He returned to Barcelona in 2017 with a Ramón y Cajal fellowship. Since 2022, he has been an associate professor at the Department of Biomedicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona. In 2024, he was awarded the ICREA Academia distinction. He has published more than 40 scientific articles in the fields of cell death and precision medicine against cancer.
