Ana María Pascual-Leone

Ana María Pascual-Leone Pascual (born 24 August 1930) is a Spanish pharmacist and biochemist who worked on perinatal endocrinology and metabolism. Most of her career was spent at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and at its Institute of Biochemistry, a centre run jointly with the Complutense University of Madrid, where her research dealt with hormonal imbalances and malnutrition during pregnancy. She is a member of the Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, and in 1994 she received the National Research Prize Reina Sofía on the Prevention of Deficiencies.

Early life and education Pascual-Leone was born in Valencia on 24 August 1930. She came from a Valencian family with a long tradition in pharmacy and medicine. Her father was a paediatrician, and her mother was a pharmacist who had trained at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.