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María Amparo Pascual López
[edit]María Amparo Pascual López (born November 29, 1944), is a pharmacologist, medical doctor and clinical trial expert.
She was the driving force behind the establishment of Cuba’s Clinical Trials Coordinating Center (CENCEC)Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the help page)., a center for the evaluation of products before their medical practice. She was also named Cuba’s first biostatistician and was named one of the 10 most outstanding scientists in all of Latin America[1].
Education
[edit]In 1967, María Amparo Pascual López graduated from University of La Havana, as a Doctor of Medicine. Then, in 1974, the went to the School of Public Health (Escuela de Salud Pública) in La Havana, Cuba[2] She first wanted to focus on medicine, but ultimately decided on becoming a biostatistician.
Career
[edit]Following the rapid development of the pharmaceutical industry in Cuba, there needed to be a method for evaluating products before they are introduced to the public. As a result, María Amparo Pascual López, along with four other specialists, established the CENCEC, with the objective of ensuring proper clinical assessment of medical-pharmaceutical and biotechnology products will ethical, scientific and methodological rigor, while complying with international standards to be ready to be approved for marketing both in Cuba and internationally[3] María Amparo Pascual López shifted her focus from being a doctor to investigation in oncology, and then in the rest of the specialties.[4] She has also been a professor at the University of Habana, teaching Biostatistics and Bioethics.
From 1991 to 2014, María Amparo Pascual López was a founding director of the CENCEC. [1] In 2013, she was named one of the 10 female leaders of science in Latin America [5].
- ^ "Cuba's National Clinical Trials Coordinating Center: Emergence, Evolution, and Main Results". MEDICC Review. 13 (1): 46. 2011. doi:10.37757/mr2011v13.n1.10. ISSN 1555-7960.
- ^ Fauveau, Alice (2016-12-14). "Mª Amparo Pascual directora del CENCEC:una lección de actitud | FOW". ▷ VIAJES PARA MUJERES 【Focus On Women】 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- ^ "Cuba's National Clinical Trials Coordinating Center: Emergence, Evolution, and Main Results". MEDICC Review. 13 (1): 46. 2011. doi:10.37757/mr2011v13.n1.10. ISSN 1555-7960.
- ^ Fauveau, Alice (2016-12-14). "Mª Amparo Pascual directora del CENCEC:una lección de actitud | FOW". ▷ VIAJES PARA MUJERES 【Focus On Women】 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- ^ "10 mujeres que lideran la ciencia en América Latina". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2020-10-26.