Ernest Nadal, along with Josep Mª Piulats, is the group leader of Clinical Research in Solid Tumours Group in Oncobell. His team’s aim is to transform ideas and hypotheses generated in the cancer-treatment environment into personalised therapies, clinical trials and translation projects. This leads to an increase in the social and bibliometric impact of the research generated by the Oncobell programme and creates synergies between basic and clinical researchers within the programme.

The active projects that he is leading are: "Early onset lung cancer", "Identification of new therapeutic targets in thoracic tumors" and "Validation of serum markers for the diagnosis of lung cancer".