Professional Activities:

Positions and Honors:

1992-1995	Student Research Assistant, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1994-1995	Teaching Assistant University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996-1998	Graduate Research Associate, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998-2003	Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
2003-2008	Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, SUNY -Albany, USA, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, USA
2005-2008	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York, Albany, USA
2005-2008	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, USA
2008-present	Associate Professor (Tenured), Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Departments of Medicine, Otolaryngology and Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2008-present	Director, Head and Neck Cancer Basic Research, Department of Otolaryngology, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2009-present	Member, The Dubin Breast Center, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
2013-present	Director, Solid Tumor and Metastasis Research, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2013-date:	Research Leader, Metastasis Research Center, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
2014:	Professor (Tenured) Division of Hematology and Oncology, Departments of Medicine, Otolaryngology and Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA

Honors and Fellowships (since 1996):

1996	Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1997	Senior Research Fellowship, National Council for Science and Technology, Argentina (declined).
1998	Award “Florencio Fiorini Foundation”, Argentine League for the Fight Against Cancer (LALCEC).
1999	Best Basic Research Paper, Institute of Oncology "Angel Roffo", University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001	Charles H. Revson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Research, Charles Revson Foundation, New York, USA
2002	“Jorge Oster Fellowship”, Bunge y Born Foundation, Argentina. (Trainee in the USA, H. Farina, PhD)
2003	“Jorge Oster Fellowship”, Bunge y Born Foundation, Argentina. (Trainee in the USA, A. Adam, MSc.)
2003	“Florencio Fiorini Award”, Argentine League for the Fight Against Cancer (LALCEC), Argentina
2005	Promising Inventor Award, The Research Foundation, State University of New York, New York, USA
2010	Chair: Cancer and Stem Cells. Annual NYSTEM meeting. CUNY Graduate Center, New York
2010	Chair Workshop on Non-Mammalian Models of Cancer. 101st AACR annual meeting, Washington DC
2011	Chair Educational Session: Dormancy of Disseminated Tumor Cells and Metastatic Growth: Are Tumor Stem Cells the Culprit? 102nd AACR meeting, Orlando FL
2011	Award “Fulbright Scholarship”, Bunge &Born Foundation, Argentina. (USA Trainee, Maria Carlini, MSc.)
2011	Editorial Board Member, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Diseases, http://versita.com/ersc
2011	Elected Permanent Member, Tumor Microenvironment (TME) Study Section, CSR, NIH
2012	Speaker Major Symposium: Dormant and Stem Cells in Tumor Heterogeneity. 103rd AACR Meeting,  Chicago, IL
2012	Co-Chair, Plenary lecture session, 1st Advances in Circulating Tumour Cells Meeting, Athens, Greece
2012	Speaker Herrenhausen Symposium on Metastasis, Nature Medicine, Kloster Seeon, Germany
2012	Speaker & Chair- Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Symposium, Tokyo, Japan.
2013	Editorial Board of Cancer Research, Breaking Advances Editor cancerres.aacrjournals.org/site/misc/edboard.xhtml
2013/14	Advisor for the National Breast Cancer Coalition Artemis Project on Breast Cancer Dormancy.
2014	Speaker and Chair – ISREC Meeting on Metastatic Colonization, Crans Montana, Switzerland.

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

Reviewer for Scientific Journals: 1998-date: Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Cell Biology, JCI, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, PNAS, JNCI, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cancer Research, The Journal of Cell Science, Oncogene, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention; Carcinogenesis, PLoS ONE, Laboratory Investigation, Cell Cycle, Cancer Letters, FEBS Letters, International Journal of Cancer, Clinical Experimental Metastasis, Biomed Central-Gastroenterology, Biomed Central-Cancer, Mutation Research, Microscopy Research and Technique, Current Cancer Drug Targets, Biochemical Pharmacology, Expert Opinion in Pharmacology, Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, BBA-Molecular Cell Research, Journal of Cellular Physiology. Guest Editor for Cell Cycle, (Landes Bioscience), for the August 2006 issue “Spotlight on Cancer Dormancy”.

Reviewer for Private and Federal Organizations: 2001-present Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation; 2002/2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; 2002 AIRC Italian Association for Cancer Research; 2004-present Science and Technology Sponsored Programs, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2004-present General Medicine Study Section, FONCYT- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica -Argentina. (Argentine National Agency for the Funding of Science and Technology); 2005-2006 Scientific Reviewer for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP); 2005 Breast Cancer Research Program Pathobiology-3/CBY-2; 2005-present Ad Hoc Member, Tumor Cell Biology (TCB) Study Section, Oncological Sciences  IRG, Center for Scientific Review, NIH; 2005 Reviewer for the Bridge Grant Committee, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2006 Reviewer and Chair for the Hearst Fellowship Selection Committee, SPH, SUNY-Albany, NY; 2007-09 Member of the NIH/NCI PO1 Review Panel Cellular and Tissue Biology Special Emphasis Panel; 2008 Reviewer for the 6th International Society of Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA; 2009 Reviewer for the RFA OD-09-003 Challenge Grants Panel 6, ZRG1 OBT-A (58) R study section NIH/NCI; 2009-2011 Ad Hoc Member, Tumor Progression and Metastasis (TPM) Study Section, Oncological Sciences  IRG, Center for Scientific Review, NIH; 2009 Reviewer for the CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant Program; 2010 Reviewer, Chile Millennium Program; 2010 Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA); 2011 Permanent Member, Tumor Microenvironment (TME) Study Section, Oncological Sciences IRG, Center for Scientific Review, NIH.