Medical Oncologist
Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Spain
Dr Javier Martin Broto is a medical oncologist at the Fundación Jimenez Diaz University Hospital, and he is leading, at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz Institute for Medical Research (IIS-FJD), Madrid (Spain) the lab team of the Advanced Therapies and Biomarkers in Sarcoma (ATBSarc).
Founder Member of the Spanish Group for Research on Sarcomas (GEIS) in 1994 and GEIS Chairman from 2010 to 2018). He obtained PhD degree on Molecular Biology in 2010 focusing on molecular prognostic biomarkers in GIST. Member of American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), of European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), of Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS), of Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica (SEOM). ESMO Faculty member in Sarcomas from 2010 and he was member of board directors of CTOS from 2014 to 2018. He is member of Steering committee of EURACAN network.
Currently he combines clinical sarcoma assistance with translational research, leading a basic research team in the lab. Additionally, he’s running and designing several trials on sarcoma patients, some of them as coordinator at national and international level. He is the author/co-author of more than 150 manuscripts in sarcoma including first author in journals as Journal Clinical Oncology, Lancet Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Annals of Oncology, and Clinical Cancer Research among others.
He is the Chain of the consortium SELNET; this network involves Latin- American and European countries.
