Lamas, María Jesús

Affiliation: 

The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices

Country: 

Spain

1. Current Status, Position

Ms Lamas is currently the Director of the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices.

2. Education

María Jesús Lamas studied pharmacy at Santiago de Compostela University (Spain) and became a licensed specialist hospital pharmacist in 1995. In 2003, she obtained a diploma in Oncology Pharmacy and in 2011, she obtained the Pharmacy PhD at Santiago de Compostela University (Spain). She has been working in hospital settings for many years of which she eventually became Chief of the Pharmacy Department at Xerencia de Xestión Integrada of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from 2013 to July 2018. At this point, she was appointed as the Director of the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices.

3. Research Area

María Jesús Lamas has participated in twelve research projects as principal investigator of which “Biology of the systems in the characterization of response to biological drugs in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease” can be highlighted and another six research projects as collaborator.

4. Conflict of interest: none