Guillermo De Velasco Oria De Rueda MD, PhD

Guillermo De Velasco Oria de Rueda MD PhD, is a medical oncologist with special interest in GU tumors. Dr. de Velasco received his medical degree from Complutense University, Madrid (Spain) in 2006. In 2011, Dr. de Velasco completed his residency training in Medical Oncology at the University Hospital 12 de Octubre. During the last two years of his fellowship, he also obtained a Master's degree in Molecular Oncology at CNIO, Madrid (Spain). After finishing his Oncology fellowship in Spain, Dr. de Velasco was awarded an ESMO fellowship to work in the Genitourinary Department at Cambridge University (UK)--under the directorship of Professor Tim Eisen. While there, he also developed research in Christian Frezza’s Lab to explore metabolomics signatures in kidney cancer. In 2015, Dr. de Velasco was awarded a SEOM fellowship to join the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, as a research fellow with Professor Toni K. Choueiri, where he was involved in several clinical and translation investigations in the Genitourinary field.

Dr. de Velasco is currently an independent clinical researcher and attending physician at University Hospital 12 de Octubre. His research focuses on understanding the mechanism of response and resistance to different treatments in renal cell carcinoma and other GU malignancies.