Dr. Irene Brana is a Medical Oncologist specialized in Head and Neck Malignancies and Early Drug Development. In 2010, she completed her Medical Oncology training at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, the largest Medical Oncology Department in Spain. She underwent a 3-year fellowship in Drug Development and Head and Neck Malignancies at the Drug Development Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada. During that period she was awarded a SEOM grant, an ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award and a Foundación La Caixa Grant. Since November 2014 she works in the Medical Oncology Department at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, in Barcelona, Spain, which is the largest Medical Oncology Department in Spain. She currently leads the clinical research at the Head and Neck Tumor Unit from the Medical Oncology Department and also works in the Early Drug Development Program (UITM). As part of the Head and Neck Unit, she is in charge of the assessment and treatment of patients candidate for systemic treatment as part of multimodal treatment or in the recurrent/metastastic setting. She has worked in the development of novel therapies from phase I to phase III including immunotherapies and targeted therapies..