Lorea Valcárcel Jiménez

Ikerbasque Research Fellow, UPV/EHU

Currently works at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Research line: 
Study of oncogenic events in renal cancer progression and the contribution of its tumour microenvironment and metabolic landscape
Basque Government PhD fellowship (2014), FEBS Short term fellowship (2017), FEBS Long term fellowship (2019), Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Fellowship (2022), Programa CRIS contra el cancer lider emergente (2023) and Ramón y Cajal Fellow (from 2025)
Previous research experience in oncometabolism, cancer cell signalling and identification of therapeutic targets in uro-oncological diseases acquired at national (CICbiogune-Derio) and international (King´s College London, University of Cambridge-MRC Cancer Unit and CECAD-University of Cologne) research institutes
PhD in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine (2017) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)