Juan Carlos Andreu-Ballester MD, PhD os currently Head of the Research Unit Arnau de Vilanova Hospital. He has a Medical and Surgery Diplomate and Doctorate in Medicine (PhD) from the Medicine School University of Valencia (Spain) and a Higher Diplomate in Methodology Clinic Research. He is an Emergency Medicine Diplomate and Family Practice Physician Specialist, Chief of the Emergency Department and the Short-Medical Staying Unit. He currently works at the Research of Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Region (FISABIO –Public Health), Valencia (Spain), and Parasitic Immunobiology and Immunomodulation Research Group (INMUNOPAR) Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He was awarded the Valencian Society of Surgery for the best research work on the analysis of changes in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for rectal cancer. He is an associate professor of the Family Practice Physician Specialty program, School of Studies for Health, Valencia, the President of Ethics and Research Committee of the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital (Valencia, Spain) and Head of the Technical Secretary of the Committee on Clinical Trials with Medicines. He is currently investigating the immunology of the mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue system related with sepsis, inflammatory bowel disease and cancer. He is a reviewer of the New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Immunology, Journal of Clinical Immunology, BMC Infectious Disease, etc.
Carmen Cuellar has carried out research on parasitic helminths, beginning with the diagnosis of visceral larva migrans. Since 1991, she has been responsible for the line on Anisakis simplex at the Department of Parasitology of the UCM. Dr. Cuellar has collaborated in different studies related to the prevalence of anti-Anisakis antibodies in Spain, relationship between sensitization by A. simplex and the recurrent acute urticaria, antigenic purification and development of new immunodiagnostic techniques in vivo and in vitro, immunological factors involved in anisakiosis gastroallergic and associated chronic urticaria, the involvement of opportunistic agents in Crohn's disease, immunomodulators mechanisms between Anisakis larvae and dendritic murine cells with the production of regulatory T lymphocytes, etc.
In 1991, she obtained the position of a lecturer in Parasitology at UCM. In 2012, she took possession of a position as a Professor of Parasitology at UCM.
Antonio Llombart-Cussac MD, PhD is currently the Head of the Medical Oncology Service of the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital of Valencia, coordinator of the Breast Cancer research group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida), an Associate Professor at the University of Lleida (UDL, Universidad de Lleida) and Catholic University of Medicine in Valencia (Spain), and scientific coordinator of the SOLTI breast cancer research group. He is also a member of leading European and American oncology societies. Having initially studied at the universities of Valencia and Navarra, he completed his training as a resident physician at the Clinical Hospital of Valencia. He subsequently completed stays at the Gustave Roussy Institute (1994-1997) and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) of New York (2001). He carried out his healthcare activity at the Valencian Institute of Oncology (IVO,Instituto Valenciano de Oncología) foundation (1998-2005) and worked as head of the Medical Oncology Service of the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in Lleida (2005-2011). He is recognized as an international expert in breast cancer, having published over 150 articles in international journals, and has led several research projects supported by competitive local, national and international grants.
Victoria Domínguez-Márquez has a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and is an Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valencia. She is a specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology, and the Head of the Microbiology Service at Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in Valencia, Spain. She is the director of two doctoral theses and co-authored some articles related to the microbiological diagnosis of infectious diseases, which have been registered in PubMed. ORCID number 0000-0002-7887-7692.
