Degree Medicine in 2004 at the University of Barcelona.

Resident training in Medical Oncology from 2005 to 2009 at Hospital Clínic Barcelona.

Master in Clinical Sciences Research in 2010 at the University of Barcelona.

Doctorate in Medicine PhD in 2021 at the University of Barcelona.

Specialist in Medical Oncology at the Hospital Clínic Barcelona from 2010 to the present, specialized in brain tumors.

Throughout her professional career, healthcare activity, clinical research and translational research have been closely linked, being the principal investigator of numerous clinical trials at the Medical Oncology Department of the Hospital Clínic Barcelona, ​​the vast majority of which are clinical trials of brain tumors.

Currently national coordinator of a colorectal cancer clinical trial, GEMCAD 1802, and an adult medulloblastoma clinical trial, EORTC 1634.

Estela Pineda has multiple presentations at conferences and 31 articles published in journals indexed in JCR.

She also participates in a coordinated project lead by Joan Seoane (AECC 2017 grant) of the Vall Hebron Institute, about the role of liquid biopsy in brain tumors as principal investigator of the Hospital Clínic Barcelona, and she has collaborated with Carme Balaña in two research projects about the molecular characterization of glioblastomas.

Since 2017 she is the co-coordinator of the brain tumor committee of the Hospital Clínic Barcelona together with Dr Josep González. She also participates and collaborates in the project of glioblastoma brain organoids and photodynamic therapy lead by Dr Josep González (Gebro private funding).

She is currently the vice president of GEINO (Spanish Group of NeuroOncology), the coordinator of the GEINO course for young medical oncologists since 2019, and member of the GEINO scientific committe since 2014. One year ago she also created a GEINO monthly national committee of neuro-oncology, a committee to share rare and difficult brain tumor cases, an event with a great clinical-translational interest.

From the educational point of view, she is also professor of University of Barcelona and she teaches brain tumor classes in the Degree of Medicine, in the Biomedicine Master and also participates in the Immunoncology Master (brain tumor block).