María-Victoria Mateos is Consultant Physician in the Hematology Department and Associate Professor of

Medicine at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is the director of the Myeloma Program and coordinates

the Clinical Trials Unit in Salamanca’s University Hospital Hematology Department.

She serves as coordinator of GEM (Spanish Myeloma Group), with direct involvement in the design and development of clinical trials. She has coordinated many clinical trials in elderly and smoldering multiple myeloma patients that have profoundly influenced current options for treating these patient populations.

She has published over 200 original papers in international journals. Her areas of interest include multiple myeloma, the biology of plasma cells, and the development of new drugs.