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Character
Ana

Ana María Lluch Hernández

Valencia 13-02-1949

Period of activity: From 1978 until Still active

Geographical classification: Europe > Spain

Socio-cultural movements

Groups by dedication

Healthcare workers > Physicians

Context of feminine creation

Ana Lluch Hernández is a contemporary of María Blasco Marhuenda, director of the Carlos III National Cancer Research Center specialized in the study of telomeres. Also, Anna Veiga Lluch, specialist in stem cells; as well as Margarita del Val, specialist in virology.

Throughout history, the field of Biology and Natural Sciences has been plagued by women researchers, such as Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was one of the most versatile and influential women of the Middle Ages in 12th century Western Europe. Mystic, abbess, theologian, writer of an extensive epistolary and religious texts and of scientific books on plants and minerals and their healing powers, as well as on the functioning of the human body. The naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717); the anatomy professor Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716-1774); Laura Bassi (1711-1778) who promoted the constitution of a network of experimenters that connected Italy with the scientific culture of France and England; or Eunice Foote (1819-1888), who from her kitchen was able to identify the greenhouse effect and work on global warming. 

They are women of her generation such as Jane Morris Goodall, known for her 55-year study of the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Rita Colwell, a researcher in oceanography and bacteriology.

Tu Youyou and Josefina Castellví i Piulachs also belong to her generation. The first of them is a Chinese scientist, known for discovering artemisinin (also known as dihydroartemisinin), used to treat malaria that in 2015 won the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.Finally, Josefina Castellví, was an oceanographer.She was the first Spaniard to participate in an international expedition to Antarctica in 1984.

Review


Graduated in Medicine at the University of Valencia in 1978, she is a specialist in hematology and medical oncology at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. In 1986, she obtained her doctorate at the University of Valencia. She is currently Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valencia and Head of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. She is principal investigator of the Breast Cancer Biology Research Group of the INCLIVA Foundation, and has worked in several international research centers and hospitals. 
Her research in oncology, especially in breast cancer, has positioned her as one of the leading researchers in this field, both nationally and internationally. It is worth mentioning her contribution to identify and evaluate tumor markers that serve as prognostic and predictive factors of therapeutic response in breast cancer. 
She has served as a consultant for several oncology programs in the Valencian Community.

Activities

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Justifications

  • She has contributed to major advances in breast cancer diagnosis and care.
  • She collaborated in the development of the Early Diagnosis Plan for Breast Cancer in the Valencian Community.
  • Her approach to cancer research has made it possible to move towards personalized medicine by identifying and evaluating tumor markers.

Biography


In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Valencia. He completed his residency in the specialty of hematology and medical oncology at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. In 1985 she obtained her doctorate from the University of Valencia and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. She has been a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine since 1986. 
Member of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology, she has served as an advisor to the Early Diagnosis Program for Breast Cancer in the Valencian Community. She has also been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Cancer Plan and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Hereditary Cancer Program of the Valencian Country. She is also a researcher at the Research Foundation of the Hospital Clínico and a member of the ECO Foundation (Excellence and Quality in Oncology) and is a member of the Breast Cancer Clinical Research Unit of the National Cancer Research Center (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas). 
Ana Lluch has been Professor of Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the Universitat de València since October 2019 and Head of the Hematology and Oncology Service at the Hospital Clínico Universitario, as well as coordinator of the Breast Cancer Biology Research Unit of the INCLIVA Foundation of the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia.

Works

Lluch Hernández, Ana María (2014). Nuevos retos en el tratamiento y la investigación del cáncer. Valencia: Publicacions de la Universitat de València. 
Lluch Hernández, Ana María (2017). Hormonoterapia en cáncer de mama luminal. España: You & Us 
 

Didactic approach

-When explaining the relationship between mutations and cancer, it is important to emphasize the early diagnosis of this disease.
 -Biology and Geology 1st, 3rd ESO, Block: The Human Body.
-Biology and Geology 4th ESO, Block: Genetics and Evolution.

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