Institut Curie
santiago de compostela, A Corunha
Yolanda Prezado is a research professor at the Centre for Research in Molecular Medicine and
Chronic Diseases (CiMUS), in Spain and a senior researcher at the Institut Curie (France). She is a
research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) (on leave) and head of the interdisciplinary team New Approaches in Radiotherapy (NARA). She has a multidisciplinary
background (radiobiology, medical physics). She is a Medical Physics expert (board certified in Spain and France).
She has more than 20 years research experience, most of them in the domain of spatially fractionated radiation therapy. One of their main projects is proton minibeam radiation therapy,
funded by the European Union via a prestigious ERC consolidator grant. Among her main interests are innovative radiotherapy techniques, combined radio-immunotherapies, radiobiology, and small field dosimetry.
She has served on many committees and working groups. As an example, she has been the chair of the scientific committee of the European Federation of Medical Physicists from 2019 to 2021. Her work in proton therapy has been rewarded with the Mr et Mme Peyre prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2021.
She has published more than 100 papers, and supervised the work of 10 students, 12 postdoctoral fellows and attracted more than 5 million Euros in the last 5 years.
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