Silvia V. Montaner PhD, MPH

Silvia Montaner is a Professor in the Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr Montaner received her B.S. and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Murcia, Spain. She did her graduate training on the role of small GTPases in the regulation of gene transcription at the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain, where she earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1997.

She received her Master in Public Health from the Pontificia-Comillas University (ICADE) in 1998. Dr Montaner joined then the laboratory of Dr J. Silvio Gutkind at the National Institute of Health as an International Fulbright Scholar where she did her postdoctoral fellowship on the molecular pathogenesis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma. She subsequently joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Dentistry in 2004, and the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2005. As Principal Investigator of her research group, Dr Montaner studies vascular biology in both cancer and ocular diseases.