Development and validation of image processing and analysis tools for the quantification of the tumor microenvironment in multiplex immunostained cancer tissues.

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I would like to express my gratitude to all the people that guided me for the past four years. First and foremost, I would like to thank Carlos Ortiz de Solórzano for allowing me to pursue a PhD under his supervision, from whom I have learned everything I know about science and academia. I would like to give special thanks to him for trusting me through these years, keeping an open mind, giving me the freedom to pursue a variety of research directions, and just simply, for treating me well. Moreover, I am also very grateful to the most experienced lab members: Mikel Ariz, for being such an excellent role model on scientific integrity, and for encouraging me always to try new ideas; Iván Cortés, for being always there, and for teaching me that with hard work and determination everything is possible; and Xabier Morales, the biochemist of the lab, for teaching me a wide range of subjects (from molecular biology to beer fermentation) with great enthusiasm.Joining the Preclinical Models and Analysis Tools research group at CIMA in 2017, has been a wonderful and truly enriching experience. I was coming from another job as a software engineer at a consulting company, and I discovered, quite surprisingly, very passionate people dedicated to cancer research. I have to thank the B.