Curriculum Vitae:

Romina Gamberale, Ph.D., is currently Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine (IMEX)-CONICET at the National Academy of Medicine in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Co-Director of the Laboratory of Onco-Immunology (https://imex.conicet.gov.ar/ ). She attended University of Buenos Aires where she majored in Cellular Biology in 1998 and received her Ph.D. in Cellular Biology in 2002 at the University of Buenos Aires studying the role of the microenvironment in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) under the mentorship of Dr. Mirta Giordano. She obtained a fellowship of the French Society of Cancer to attend to Marie Curie Institute in Paris in 2001 to study the role of the tyrosine kinase Syk in dendritic cell maturation, under the supervision of Dr. Sebastian Amigorena. Then, in 2003 she obtained another research fellow to study the mutational status of CLL patients in the Pasteur Institute in Paris under the supervision of Dr. Guillermo Dighiero. She has been teaching Immunology at the School of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires since 1998 and she is the co-Coordinator of the Immunology Course in the Hematologist Training Program of the Argentinian Society of Hematology since 2015. Her research group is interested in studying how the tumor microenvironment regulates the activation, proliferation and survival of CLL cells and their response to different therapeutic agents. Dr. Gamberale actively fosters the promotion of regional development of basic and clinical research in LLC. She participates in the Latin American Group of CLL (LAG-CLL) and also participates in the iwCLL Global Partnerships Subcommittee, a working subcommittee of international leaders in CLL whose objective is to improve the situation of CLL patients worldwide, promoting clinical and/or research training of hematologists/investigators, improving local research capacities, training of future academic leaders in CLL research, and CLL awareness among patients all over the world (https://www.iwcll.org/about/subcommittee/global-partnerships-subcommittee/).

Throughout his career, she has supervised the research of numerous undergraduate fellows, Ph.D students, post-docs and young investigators interested in CLL and publishes more than 50 papers in immunology and hematology international journals.

Curriculum Vitae:

PhD. Independent Researcher at CONICET.

Laboratory of Immuno-Oncology-IMEX-CONICET-National Academy of Medicine.

Professor at the Faculty of Medicine University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the Argentine Society of Hematology (SAH). Buenos Aires, Argentina

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CURRENT POSITION

Researcher from the National Council for Research and Technology of Argentina (CONICET), at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, National Academy of Medicine in Buenos Aires



PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Marie-Curie Fellow Researcher, European Commission, Luxembourg Institute of Health

Post-doctoral Researcher, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

Visiting Research Collaborator, Leukemia Department, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas in Houston, USA



CURRENT WORK

Hairy Cell Leukemia: studies on the mechanisms of resistance to BCL-2 inhibitors, characterization of the normal B cell repertoire, and establishment of the local patient registry

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: studies on the roles of Histones 1 in disease progression

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Eliana Abdelhay, received her BSc in Physics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and her MSc and PhD at the Biophysics Institute at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She performed a postdoctoral training in Molecular Genetics at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France. She was a teacher/researcher at UFRJ for 30 years and then moved to the Brazilian National Cancer Institute where she organized a Laboratory Division for Assistance and Research on neoplastic diseases. Actually, she is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA), a Superior Researcher at CNPQ (Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) and a Scientist of Rio de Janeiro State and leads the Stem Cell Laboratory at INCA. She authored more than 150 articles in peer- reviewed journals, gave more than 100 conferences in national and international meetings and formed 85 MSc and PhD students.

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Medico especialista en hematología, investigador activo ANID de proyectos Fondecyt, FONDEF, Anillo. Actualmente Director Medico del Laboratorio de Medicina Molecular CADI-UMAG y Director de Investigación de la Universidad de Magallanes. Miembro activo de Sociedades Científicas (American Society of Hematology, American College of Physicians, Sociedad Chilena de Hematología). Entre los principales logros se encuentran la fundación y acreditación de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Magallanes, el programa medico formativo mas austral. Dieseño y puesta en marcha de Magister en Bioinformatica de la Universidad de Magallanes y colaborador en el diseño y acreditación del Doctorado en Ciencias Mención Biologia Molecular de la UMAG. Asi mismo a cargo de la puesta en marcha del primer laboratorio de Medicina Molecular en Magallanes y el primer laboratorio de la Red Universitaria con capacidad genómica.

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Dr. Palacios is an Assistant Professor at the Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay, specializing in cancer immunology. She completed her Ph.D. focusing on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) under the mentorship of Prof. Dighiero and Dr. Oppezzo at the Institut Pasteur Montevideo. Following her Ph.D., she pursued postdoctoral research with Prof. Chiorazzi, MD, and Prof. Rai, MD, at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in the United States, where she investigated the intraclonal complexity of B cells and its impact on the progression of CLL. In 2021, Dr. Palacios returned to Uruguay as an Assistant Professor at the Institut Pasteur Montevideo. Her research interests lie in translational medicine, with a particular focus on discovering new therapeutic targets and treatments.

Curriculum Vitae:

Is a scientist with a strong focus on Immunology, Hematology, and Oncology.

He heads the Research Laboratory on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo.

Dr. Oppezzo has participated in different national and international scientific committees in the field of CLL and coordinated the first project aimed at generating a CLL network in the region through the Ibero-American Program for Science and Technology for Development (CYTED).

He has published more than 60 articles, most of them focused on CLL prognosis and the role of the tumor microenvironment in the progression of B-cell malignancies