Irene Braña
ibrana@vhio.net
Current Position
Irene Braña is the group leader of the Head and Neck Cancer Group and is part of the Research Unit for Molecular Therapy of Cancer (UITM) – CaixaResearch at VHIO.
Academic Qualifications
Dr. Irene Braña is a Medical Oncologist specialized in Head and Neck Malignancies and Early Drug Development. In 2010, she completed her Medical Oncology training at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, the largest Medical Oncology Department in Spain. She underwent a 3-year fellowship in Drug Development and Head and Neck Malignancies at the Drug Development Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada. During that period she was awarded a SEOM grant, an ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award and a Foundación La Caixa Grant.
Areas of Research
- As part of the Head and Neck Unit, she is in charge of the assessment and treatment of patients candidate for systemic treatment as part of multimodal treatment or in the recurrent/metastastic setting. She has worked in the development of novel therapies from phase I to phase III including immunotherapies and targeted therapies..
