The PI of the present project (Dr. Luis Hernández Pous) has been working in the area of molecular biology applied to cancer research, mainly in the hematopathology speciality, from his PhD in 1992. Along his career has published a total of 51 artícles in high impact international scientific journals (first cuartile) as Nature, Nature Genetics, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Leukemia and, Br J Haematol among others. His leadership could be noticed in 5 articles as senior/corrersponding author. The global indexes of his publications are also noticeable as has achieved 6.151 citations and a H-index of 34 (Scopus). The Dr.Hernández has achieved fundings from competitive projects from Instituto de Salud Carlos III (contract 2002;projects 2006-PI050224-, 2013-PI12/01302- y 2015-PI15/0051), among other projects as a collaborator.

Moreover has been supervising national and international students, as well as has been a teacher in professional education courses (Biología Molecular para Médicos course, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, from 2002). Dr. Hernández has been part of the organizing comitee of the first International workshop of IDIBAPS Translational Genomics in Biomedicine (2014).

The initial research lines of Dr. Hernández were previously related to the study of cell cycle-related mechanisms genomic instability and the clinical value of such alterations in human lymphomas. In the period (2006-2008) the research line moved to studies of short non-coding RNAs (miRNAs) in mantle cell and follicular lymphomas (MCL and FL) thanks to the funding of FIS-ISCIII. In 2008 he started as a researcher of the I3Salud program at the Lymphoid Neoplasms Molecular Pathology Lab at the Institut d\'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS, Barcelona) consolidating his independent researh line about noncoding RNAs and their pathobiologic role in lymphoid neoplasms. Several articles have been published from this period (Navarro A, et al. Cancer Res. 2009 Sep 1;69(17):7071-8; Leich E et al. Blood. 2011 Nov 17;118(20):5550-8; Navarro A, et al. Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Jun 15;19(12):3121-9). Noticeably, from 2013 Dr. Hernández leaded two FIS projects related with long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in follicular lymphoma (PI12/01302;PI15/00551), which results have been published in Br. J Haematology (see CV). In parallel he also collaborated in a non-coding RNA project on MCL and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with the CRO (Aviano, Italy) funded by the this institution as well as in a current project on CLL funded by La Fundacio Marato-TV3

Among other noticeable contributions in scientific research of Dr..Hernandez could be mentioned hi role as co-organizer of the first Workshop of Translational Genomics in Biomedicine in IDIBAPS (13/14 march, 2014, Barcelona) and its role as representative from Oncology and Hematology in the PhD Biomedicine Program of University of Barcelona. He has been invited to give a lecture in the Centro di Riferimento Oncologico e svoltotosi, Aviano, Italy. Entitled: (Long) non-coding RNAs in lymphoproliferative disorders (2014). Regarding his scientific teaching activities Dr. Hernandez has directed the PhD. thesis of Dr. Alejandro Roisman in codirection with Dra. I. Slavutsky from Universidad de Buenos Aires, and the PhD thesis of Dra. Elena Maria Fernández Garnacho, at IDIBAPS in codirection with Dr. Elias Campo. Finally he has been also the supervisor of Biomedicine Master\'s degree (University of Barcelona) final projects from 3 students in the last 3 years and he is currently directing one Biomedicine Grade\'s final project (University of Barcelona).