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Dr Angela Lamarca is a Medical Oncologist (MD, PhD, MSc), specialised in gastrointestinal malignancies (hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) and neuroendocrine tumours (NETs)). She completed her training in Medical Oncology (including her PhD) in Spain (Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid). She moved to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (Manchester, United Kingdom) in 2013, where she completed a 4-year fellowship programme in HPB and NETs; during this period she received funding from ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Translational Fellowship Programme, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund and The Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) Fellowship Grant Programme. Dr Lamarca has completed a Masters Degree in Molecular Biology of Cancer and a second Masters Degree in Biostatistics. She was awarded with an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award in 2017 and was appointed as a Consultant in Medical Oncology at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in May 2017 where she continues her Clinical and Translational Research career in HPB and NETs. She is actively involved in clinical trial design with special interest in NETs and HPB, focused on achieving a better understanding of these malignancies and identification of new therapies for improving patients’ outcome. Dr Angela Lamarca is a member of the EORTC Gastrointestinal Cancer Group and a faculty member of the ESMO Neuroendocrine, Endocrine Neoplasms and CUP Group.

Dr Angela Lamarca has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

AAA, Bayer, EISAI, Merck, Mylan and Delcath, Novartis, Nutricia, Roche, SrtEx and QED. 

 

Dr Louis de Mestier serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pancreatology - Digestive Oncology at the ENETS Centre of Excellence of Beaujon University Hospital in Clichy (Université Paris-Cité), France. He obtained his specialist diplomas in Hepato-Gastroenterology and Digestive Oncology at the University of Reims, France. He has completed a PhD in Cancer Biology at the University of Paris-Cité in 2021. His clinical interests are on neuroendocrine tumors and pancreatic diseases. His main areas of clinical and translational research include tumor heterogeneity, molecular biomarkers and personalized treatment in NETs. He has been member of the Advisory Board of the French Neuroendocrine Tumor Networks (GTE, RENATEN) since 2020, and joined the Advisory Board of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) in 2022. He has participated in more than 100 medical publications, including more than 50 indexed papers in the field of NETs.

Prof. Louis de Mestier has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

Novartis, Pfizer, Ipsen. 

Dr Jaume Capdevila obtained his medical degree from the University of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain. In 2000-2001 he held a fellowship in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Lleida. From 2002 to 2006 he attended a specialization in medical oncology at the Santa Creu i Sant Pau University Hospital, Barcelona and since 2006 served as medical oncologist at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) in Barcelona. Since early 2013 he is also leading the gastrointestinal and endocrine tumor unit at Teknon Cancer Institute. He is involved in research and treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancer and endocrine tumors as well as in early-drug development. He has published over 82 articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters. He is an active member of several oncology societies (ASCO, ENETS, EORTC, SEOM, TTD, GEMCAD, GETNE, and GETHI) and actively participates in national and international trials. He is member of the advisory board of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS), Secretary and Treasurer of the Spanish Task Force for neuroendocrine tumors (Grupo Español de Tumores Neuroendocrinos, GETNE) and funding member and Treasurer of the Spanish Task Force Group for Research in Orphan and Rare Tumors (Grupo Español de Tumores Huérfanos e Infrecuentes, GETHI). He is also a medical oncologist member of the Thyroid Cancer Working Group within the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN).

Dr Jaume Capdevila has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:

AAA, Bayer, Eisai, Merck, Novartis, Ipsen, Pfizer and Sanofi. 

Prof. Marianne Pavel is the Chair of Endocrinology at the Department of Medicine 1, University of Erlangen, Germany. Board certified as a specialist in internal medicine in 2000 and endocrinology/diabetes in 2001; she was appointed as Vice Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen in 2001. She took a position as an Assistant Director at the Charité University Hospital, Berlin in 2007 and was conferred a Professorship for NET Disease at the Charité University in 2010. In 2009, under her guidance, the NET Center at the Charité University was certified as one of the first ENETS Centers of Excellence. Her major focus in medicine is neuroendocrine tumors for more than 20 years. She has conducted numerous clinical trials in the field of NET. She is involved in the activities from ENETS since 2005 and is first author of the 2012 and the updated 2016 “ENETS Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Liver and Other Distant Metastases from Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of Foregut, Midgut, Hindgut, and Unknown Primary”. Since April 2014 she is a member of the Executive Committee of ENETS and has recently been elected as chair of ENETS up from 2020. She is involved in scientific and educational activities in NET from different societies including German Cancer Foundation and ESMO.
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