Since 2009 I have been part of the Gastroenterology Service of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.

I completed my PhD in Medicine at the University of Barcelona focusing on hereditary forms of colorectal cancer and epigenetics (methylation and miRNAs). I have dedicated myself, both at the healthcare level and in my research career, to digestive oncology, especially hereditary predisposition syndromes, and in recent years to extracolonic neoplasms (pancreas and stomach), being in charge of patients with these neoplasms in the High Risk Digestive Cancer Clinic of the Hospital Clínic since 2014.

I completed a postdoctoral stay (2015-2017) at the University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Dr. Anil Rustgi, international leader in digestive oncology research, where I was able to learn various cutting-edge techniques in clinical, basic and translational research, such as recombination Cre in vitro, mouse models treated with genetic engineering, next generation sequencing, bioinformatics data analysis and generation of 3D organoids.

I obtained several prestigious aids/scholarships to complete my postdoctoral stay: a) Postdoctoral aid from the Catalan Society of Digestology in 2015, b) Advanced Program in Oncology Scholarship from the Spanish Association Against Cancer in 2016, and c) Support for the mobility of health professionals and researchers of the SNS 2017. In 2015 I was awarded the Ramón Margalef Prize, from the University of Barcelona for the best scientific article as a result of a doctoral thesis (published in JAMA in 2012) and in May 2017 I received recognition from the American Gastroenterological Association for my work as a novel researcher.

My interest in the area of digestive oncology can be seen reflected in the publication of original works in the most prestigious journals in the specialty (Clin Cancer Res 2011, JAMA 2012, Gut 2013, Cancer 2015, Developmental Cell 2018, Gastroenterology 2020, Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2020, Cancers 2020, IJMS 2021, IJC 2023, Cancers 2023), with excellent scientific production. In addition, I have extensive experience in coordinating multicenter studies such as EPICOLON and EPIGASTRIC. I have actively participated in updating different national and international clinical guidelines on digestive cancer (AEG Colorectal Cancer Guide 2018; Guide to Hereditary Gastrointestinal Syndromes of the European Society of Medical Oncology 2019; and Consensus Document on Gastric Cancer Screening in Spain 2020 and 2021). Also I am member of international consortiums of pancreatic and gastric cancer research (such as AIDA, Precede, Epipancreas and Traspan).

Now I have my own line of research in the area of digestive tumors, and I am leading 4 multicenter studies of digestive extracolonic tumors in Spain. I have been a researcher at IDIBAPS since 2013 and at CIBERehd since 2015. Also, I am currently the scientific director of the European and World Helicobacter Pylori Registry, with more than 80,000 patients included. From an academic point of view, I have directed three master's thesis projects (UB and UAB), one doctoral theses at the UB, and I am currently directing one doctoral theses at the UB, I am a collaborating professor at 3 Official university master's degrees (UB and UAB).

Moreover, I am an associate professor and the current coordinator of the Digestive System course at the Faculty of Medicine in the UB.

I have been vice-secretary and treasurer of the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology, currently I am the member who coordinates the internacional relations of said association.

Finally, since 2020 I have been part of the committee of the European Association of Gastroenterology (UEG) as a representative of Spain and since 2022 I have been a member of two committees of the World Gastroenterology Organization (the "Clinical Research Committee" and the "Scientific Program Committee" ).