Dr. Núria Malats is currently the head of the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. She has a broad expertise in these fields of research by focusing mainly on pancreatic and bladder cancers. She coordinates several large national and international studies integrating different levels of information, including omics data, in both disease development and progression. The resources of these studies have contributed to further disentangling the complex aetiology of these cancers. Dr. Malats has over 300 publications and is external reviewer of national and international funding agencies and first rank scientific journals. Dr. Malats has been a board member of ESUR and of the EAU Research Foundation. She chaired the EUPancreas COST Action (BM1204) with >250 members; she was a board member of the International Pancreatic Cancer Case Control Consortium (PanC4), and she is the chair of the Research Work Stream of Pancreatic Cancer Europe (PCE) multistakeholder platform.