Joaquín Arribas (PhD) is ICREA Research Professor since 2007. He is Director of the Preniclinical Research Program and Head of the Growth Factors Laboratory at the VHIO where he leads a group focused on the study of growth factor signalling in breast cancer progression and treatment. Joaquín Arribas received an EMBO Young Investigator Programme Award and the Beckman Coulter Award conferred on the Best Young Spanish Investigator in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.