Conxi LázaroConxi Lázaro PhD, is Head of the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Hereditary Cancer Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL-CIBERONC at Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. Dr Lazaro is a molecular geneticist with more than 25 years of eperience in the field of human genetics. She did her PhD in Human Genetics at University of Barcelona. She has worked in several clinical hospitals in Barcelona. She was an invited professor at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center at Boston in 2003/04 and did a sabbatical stay at Mount Sinai Hospital and at Women's College Hospital in Toronto in 2018/19. In the last ten years she has been involved in several projects aimed at using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for genetic testing purposes. Her field of expertise is Hereditary Cancer although she has worked on other genetic disorders. Of relevance was her pivotal research in the genetic basis of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) since the gene was discovered and her current work on the development of new therapeutic strategies for malignant tumors associated with NF1. She is member of several reputable international consortia and associations such as CIMBA, ENIGMA, CTF, GENTURIS and had been member of the Scientific Program Committee of the ESHG as well as treasurer of the Spanish association of human genetics (ASHG). Read More Read Less