Born in Madrid in 1965.
She graduated with honours in Chemistry (Specialization in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Complutense University in Madrid in 1988. She passed her phD in Chemistry (Specialization in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) with honours at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Complutense University in Madrid, in 1991. She is currently a senior member of the academic staff in the Faculty of Biology and Health Sciences, Department of Medical Management, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, where she was formerly the General Academic Coordinator and Director of the Institute for Research, Planning and Development (1996-98) and Director of the Faculty of Biochemistry (1999).
Scientific
and professional activity: (before the doctorate)
IAESTE
scholarship at the Institute Max-Planck für Strahlein Chemie. Mülheim a.d.
Ruhr, Germany (1988); a scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Sciences
for the formation of research personnel (FPI) with work at the Hospital General
Gregorio Marañón in Madrid (1988-90) and at the MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, USA (1990-91). (Post-doctorate) - participation in a programme
for the exchange of research personnel between public institutions and industries
at the Antibióticos Farma di Madrid (1992), in the Spanish Foundation for
research on Tumours at the Institute of Biomedical Research (CSIC), Madrid
(1993) and Research Assistant with scholarship from the Human Frontiers Science
Program at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton,
New Jersey (1994-96). Author of original basic research works published in
scientific magazines belonging to the SCI and other original reseach works
on Bioethics.
Teaching
activities:
Professor of chemistry, physics and biology at the University of Houston,
1990-91; Professor at the famous Colegio Oficial de Químicos, 1992-93 and
at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid; Doctorate courses on oncogenesis and
cancer, 1997-99, anaesthetics and intensive care in 1999 and at the Francisco
de Vitoria University in Madrid in 2000 as professor of Cellular Biology,
Molecular Oncology and Bioethics.
Mònica Lòpez Barahona - CURRICULUM VITAE
