Iciar Astiasarán, Vice President of research of the University of Navarra
Adela López de Cerain, a native of Pamplona, has been appointed dean of the School of Pharmacy.
Iciar Astiasarán Anchía has been appointed Vice President of research of the University of Navarra, replacing Luis Montuenga Badía, who will have full dedication to the direction of the area of Oncology of the research center Applied Medicine (CIMA) and to his task professor in the Schools of Medicine and Sciences. Adela López de Cerain Salsamendi is the new dean of the School of Pharmacy.
Iciar Astiasarán, a graduate (1982) and doctor (1985) in Pharmacy from the University of Navarra, obtained in 2006 the Chair in Nutrition and Bromatology. A native of Arechavaleta (Guipúzcoa), she was dean of the School of Pharmacy since 2004. She is a corresponding member of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy and a member of issue of the Basque Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (Jakiunde). In 2006, the Provincial Council of Guipuzcoa awarded her the Gold Medal for her "scientific career in subject of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Safety".
Professor Iciar Astiasarán is also co-director of the high school of Food Sciences of the University of Navarra (ICAUN). She has been a member of several scientific committees of congresses and associations, and is an evaluator of the quality agencies National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation (national), UNIQUAL (Basque Country) and AGAE (Andalusia), and of several scientific journals in the areas of Food Science and Technology, Nutrition and Dietetics.
Iciar Astiasarán has participated in 27 projects of research and has directed 20 doctoral thesis (4 of them with award extraordinary and 3, with doctorate European). She has 120 publications in journals, is co-author of 19 chapters and co-editor of 9 books, and has participated in 80 communications at conferences.
On the occasion of this appointment, the President, Ángel J. Gómez Montoro, has expressed his gratitude and recognition to the previous Vice President of research, Luis Montuenga, "for all the achievements made in his area during this time, in particular, for the impulse he has given to the research Centers foreseen in the project Horizon 2015". "Her work is especially praiseworthy -she added- if we take into account that, in addition to her ordinary teaching and research tasks, she has had to combine two very important responsibilities that, in principle, require exclusive dedication: the Office of the Vice President for Research and the direction of the area Oncology of the CIMA".
Dean of Pharmacy
For her part, Adela López de Cerain Salsamendi, professor of Toxicology, has been appointed dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Navarra. A native of Pamplona, she studied at the San Cernin and Ursulinas schools, and received her degree and PhD from the University of Navarra, where she began her degree program at Genetics and became position of the laboratory of Toxicology Genetics of the research center in Applied Pharmacobiology (CIFA).
Since 1995 she has been in charge of the teaching of Toxicology, which since July 2008 she has combined with the direction of the department of Food Sciences, Physiology and Toxicology of the School of Pharmacy. In 2009 Professor López de Cerain obtained the accreditation as Professor of Toxicology. She is also co-author of several books for students of Degree of Pharmacy and Biology, such as "Fundamentals of Toxicological Science".
On the other hand, she is registered in the European Register of Toxicologists since 2003. Between 2001 and 2005 she was editor of the Spanish Journal of Toxicology and since then she is a member of the Spanish Society of Toxicology. She is a member of REMA (network Spanish Methods Alternative to Animal Experimentation), and currently chairs the European organization ECOPA (European Consensus Platform on Alternative Methods).
In recent years her research has focused on food safety, where she has furthered the study of mycotoxins, important food contaminants. She is also involved in the analysis of the process of development of drugs, as well as biotechnology products and nanoparticles. In total, she has published nearly 100 articles in scientific journals and has directed a dozen of doctoral thesis .