Prof. Houria Boulaiz

Houria Boulaiz Tassi is a full professor with the Department of Human Anatomy and Embryology, School of Medicine, and a member of the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA). She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002, at this university, working on suicide gene therapy applied to cancer and received the 2006 PhD Excellence Award for her dissertation. She is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Granada District since 2002 and she has received seven research awards. The main areas of Prof. Boulaiz's activity focus on the implementation of different therapeutic strategies based on the use of novel natural and synthetic drugs, gene therapy and nanotechnology to eradicate cancer. From the field of diagnosis, her research group has made a great advance in the identification of new biomarkers, with a prognostic and predictive value of response, to cancer treatment. They also have developed an integrated non-invasive, highly sensitive and selective platform based on the use of bioinformatics and nanotechnology. Prof. Boulaiz teaches Human Anatomy at the undergraduate level. She also participates at the post-graduate level in different Master’s degrees. She has participated in more than 35 public research projects and contracts established with private companies, and has published more than 70 articles in international refereed journals, 5 books and 10 book chapters. She is the inventor of 10 patents.