Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez

Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez (MD-LMS, FRCPath, FRCPI) is the Chair of Molecular Pathology at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), a clinical consultant pathologist and the Lead of QUB’s Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence.

Prof Salto-Tellez is author or co-author of more than 270 internationally peer-reviewed articles in translational science, molecular pathology and diagnostics, including work published in NEJM, Nature Medicine, Gastroenterology, FASEB, EMBO, Cancer Research and Clinical Cancer Research, among others. He has published a similar number of abstracts in international conferences, and is editor or contributor to some of the key textbooks of pathology and oncology.

Professor Salto-Tellez studied Medicine in Spain (Oviedo), Germany (Aachen) and The Netherlands (Leiden). He specialized in Histopathology in the UK (Edinburgh and London) and in Molecular Pathology in USA (Philadelphia). For more than 10 years he worked at the National University of Singapore and its National University Hospital, where he was associate professor, senior consultant, director of the Diagnostic Molecular Oncology Centre, Vice-dean for Research and senior scientist at the Cancer Research Institute.

Manuel is in the editorial board of Histopathology, Journal for Clinical Pathology, and Cytopathology, among others. Manuel is the Chair of the Mol Path Subcommittee of the Pathological Society of GB & Ireland; member of the Cancer Research UK New Agents Committee, member of the NICE Guideline Committee member for Colorectal Cancer; and member of the National Cancer Research Institute’s Strategy Advisory Group, among other committees.

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