Manuel Collado

Manuel Collado obtained his PhD from the UAM for work performed on the Spanish National Biotechnology Center (CNB, CSIC-UAM). He did his first postdoc at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at St Mary´s School of Medicine in London, UK. He then moved to New York to work at the NYU Medical School and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He returned to Spain to join Manolo Serrano´s lab, first at CNB and later on as a staff scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid. Since 2012 he leads the Stem Cells in Cancer and Aging laboratory of the Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS). The main research interests of the laboratory are related with cellular reprogramming to pluripotency, and the process of cell senescence to better understand cancer and aging.

Eduardo Oliver

Eduardo Oliver (@eduolpe) is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC). He obtained a degree in Pharmacy and a PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Valencia (2010), and worked as a postdoc at Imperial College London until his return to Spain in 2016. Among other initiatives, Eduardo is one of the promoters, member of the coordinating group and vice-president of the independent citizen initiative #CienciaenelParlamento, which promotes science advice to the legislative power.