ECP 2024 Final Programme

7 ECP 2024 Florence Keynote Speakers e Manuel Salto-Tellez (United Kingdom) Prof. Manuel Salto-Tellez (MD-LMS, FRCPath, FRCPI) is Pro- fessor on Integrative Pathology at the Institute for Cancer Re- search in London (ICR), and the lead of the Royal Marsden Hospital / ICR Integrated Pathology Unit. He is also the Chair of Molecular Pathology at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), a clinical consultant pathologist and the Lead of QUB’s Preci- sion Medicine Centre of Excellence. Prof. 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 pro- fessor, senior consultant, director of the Diagnostic Molecular Oncology Centre, Vice-dean for Research and senior scientist at the Cancer Research Institute. Prof. Salto-Tellez is author or co-author of more than 320 in- ternationally peer-reviewed articles in translational science, molecular pathology and diagnostics, has published a similar number of abstracts in international conferences, and is edi- tor or contributor to some of the key textbooks of pathology and oncology, including the WHO Blue book on Digestive Tract (5th edition, co-editor); Ian Talbot, Ashley Price, Manu- el Salto-Tellez. Biopsy Pathology in Colorectal Disease, 2Ed, Hodder Arnold; and the Oxford Textbook of Oncology. Third Edition. Edited by David J. Kerr, Daniel G. Haller, Cornelis J. H. van de Velde, and Michael Baumann. Prof. Salto-Tellez has served in key committees in cancer and academia, at national and international levels, and holds more than £21M in competitive grant funding, including major pro- grammes with CRUK, UKRI and NIHR. He is scientific advisor to 2 companies in the digital pathology and artificial intelli- gence space. Manuel Salto-Tellez