M. Dolores Delgado is Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Cantabria and develops her research work at the IBBTEC. She holds a degree in Pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD from the University of Alcalá (Extraordinary Doctorate Award), and has held several postdoctoral stays in France (INSERM, Paris) and the United Kingdom (Univ. Essex). She has extensive research experience in the field of transcription factors involved in cancer. Her group has helped to clarify the role of the transcriptional regulator CTCF in the hematopoietic differentiation in leukemia cells and in the epigenetic regulation of the BCL6 oncogene in lymphoma. She has published in prestigious international journals most from first quartile in the specialties of molecular biology and oncology, and has supervised eight Doctoral Theses and ten Master's Theses. Her research has been funded continuously by national competitive projects and is currently co-IP of a project of the National R&D Program from Spanish Government. She is evaluator of scientific projects for the State Research Agency and of predoctoral fellowships and reviewer of scientific journals. She teaches undergraduate and master's degrees at the School of Medicine of the UC. She has been Coordinator of the Master in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, as well as Vice Dean of the Medical School and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine of the UC Doctoral School. She is currently Vice Director of IBBTEC.