About me

Dr Teresa Macarulla is Head of the Department of Medical Oncology at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. She specialises in hepatobiliopancreatic tumours and leads Phase I–III clinical trials focused on targeted therapies. Her work has contributed to FDA and EMA approvals and high-impact publications. She directs a multidisciplinary team integrating clinical and translational research to advance personalised treatment strategies for upper gastrointestinal cancers, including biomarker-driven approaches, liquid biopsy implementation, and investigator-initiated trials

Featured publications

Featured Projects

  • Early-Onset Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Comprehensive Multimodal Investigation (EOPC-ACMI)

    Principal investigator: Teresa Macarulla Mercadé
    Funder: Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC)
    Duration: 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2029
  • COMBinATorial Personalized Approaches for Subtyping and Targeting Functional Heterogeneity in Pancreatic Ductal AdenoCarcinoma (COMBATPDAC). EP PerMed

    Principal investigator: Teresa Macarulla Mercadé
    Funder: European Partnership for Personalized Medicine
    Code: AC24/00045
    Duration: 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2027
  • Pronóstico de Recurrencia Temprana Después de la Cirugía en Adenocarcinoma Ductal Pancreático Resecable y Borderline Resecable mediante Análisis Multi-Ómico

    Principal investigator: Teresa Macarulla Mercadé
    Funder: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
    Code: PI24/00526
    Duration: 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2027
  • TACTIC: Explorando soluciones a los retos de salud mediante ciencia disruptiva, therapias avanzadas y medicina de sistemes

    Principal investigator: Begoña Benito Villabriga
    Funder: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
    Code: FORT23/00034
    Duration: 01/01/2024 - 01/01/2028
  • Exploring the Feasibility of predictive and pharmacodynamics biomarkers of immunotherapy in solid tumors (Immune4ALL)

    Principal investigator: Enrique de Alava
    Funder: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
    Code: PMP22/00054
    Duration: 01/01/2023 - 01/01/2026