The alt textProfessor Montserrat García-Closas is physician epidemiologist expert in genetic susceptibility, etiologic heterogeneity, and risk prediction for breast cancer. She co-leads the Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Unit at ICR and Imperial College, and is a member and leader of several large international consortia in cancer epidemiology.

Professor García-Closas is a founder member of several large consortia. She served as the Chair of the Coordinating Committee for the International Consortium of Case-Control Studies of Bladder Cancer from 2005-2011, and since 2006 she co-Chairs the Pathology and Survival Working Group of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC).

Professor Garcia-Closas co-led the European Commission Horizon 2020-funded Breast CAncer STratification (BCAST) Project within BCAC. She initiated and is the Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the Confluence Project which brings together multiple consortia for trans-ancestry genetic susceptibility studies of female and male breast cancer.

She is an active member of the NCI Cohort Consortium, where she co-leads the U01 Multi-factorial Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Accounting for Ethnic and Tumor Diversity to develop a comprehensive tool to predict breast cancer risk, overall and by sub-types, across major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S.

She served as the founding PI of Connect for Cancer Prevention (2016-2023), a new prospective study of 100,000 adults in the USA, and she currently serves in the International Advisory Committee.