The scientific director of the ibs.GRANADA María José Sánchez first place in Andalusia in the Ranking of CSIC researchers
The Higher Center for Scientific Research CSIC, publishes the second edition of the ranking of female researchers according to the relevance of their scientific production, the most cited works and the number of citations for each work.
The Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC), has published the second edition of the Ranking of Spanish and foreign researchers working in Spain according to the data of their personal public profiles in Google Scholar.
In this Ranking, the professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health, an institution of the Ministry of Health and Consumption, and scientific director of ibs.GRANADA, Maria Jose Sanchez, It occupies the first position among Andalusian researchers and the tenth among all Spanish and foreign researchers in Spain.
For this ranking, the data collected during the second week of May 2023 has been used. In total 8068 researchers sorted by highest h-index* and secondarily by number of citations.
Research on cancer and its prevention
María José Sánchez studied medicine and received her doctorate from the University of Granada (UGR) in 1996. She is a specialist in Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology and an Expert in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Health Promotion and Bioethics from the UGR.
Since 1997 he has been working at the EASP attached to the Granada Cancer Registry which he became director in 2009. Since 2020, he has combined this position with the scientific direction of the Biosanitary Research Institute ibs.GRANADA, of which the EASP is a part.
Dr. Sánchez has extensive experience in the design and development of epidemiological studies related to the etiology, care and survival of cancer patients, having led and/or collaborated in more than 30 research projects at a European, national and regional level. . The results of these projects have been reflected in more than 150 scientific publications in the last 5 years.
She is Principal Investigator of a research group of excellence at the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health, from ibs.GRANADA and froml EASP PAIDI Research Group on “Research in Public Health and Health Services”. She was president of the Spanish Network of Cancer Registries (REDECAN) and elected member of the Steering Committee of the European Network of Cancer Registries (ENCR). Since December 2017, she has been the coordinator of the CIBERESP Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control Program.
She is coordinator of the EPIC-Spain study and Principal Investigator of the EPIC-Granada study. She participates in the Cancer Strategy of Andalusia, coordinating the strategic line on "Epidemiology and Information Systems". In addition, she is Principal Investigator of Andalusia in the Predictive Medicine Program of the IMPaCT infrastructure of the Carlos III Health Institute, which aims to recruit a multicenter and multipurpose cohort in Spain of 200.000 people.
She is the tenth most cited researcher in the Ranking of Spanish and foreign researchers working in Spain, which has been prepared by the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) as part of its commitment to gender equality policies. In 2018 she was included in the list of Highly Cited Researchers, being one of the most cited researchers in the world in the field of Oncology. She has been a professor of the Clinical Medicine and Public Health doctoral program at the University of Granada since 2019 and has been recognized as a Visiting Scholar of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Granada from 2019 to 2021. She is a member of the Plan's advisory committee of Personalized Precision Medicine of Andalusia and director of the 5P Precision Medicine Chair with the University of Granada and Roche Farma. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Strategic Biobank Plan of the Andalusian Public Health System and a member of the external scientific advisory committee of the Pfizer-University of Granada-Junta de Andalucía Center for Genomics and Oncology Research (GENYO), as well as the Health Research Institute of Castilla la Mancha (IDISCAM). She recently received the Gold Medal from the province of Granada and the gold medal from the city of Granada, for her research career, and she has been chosen Top100 Spanish Women Leaders 2023 and MagasIN in the category of Academics, thinkers and researchers in February of 2023.
*H-index is a system for measuring the professional quality of scientists based on the relevance of their scientific production, taking into account the set of most cited works by a researcher and the number of citations for each of these works.