Pilar Civeira

Pilar Civeira Murillo (born August 26, 1952) is a Spanish doctor and professor who leads the Center for Applied Medical Research at the University of Navarra.

Life Civeira was born in 1952 to a family that had strong associations with the local University of Zaragoza. She followed family tradition and studied and became qualified to practice medicine at the University. She studied further and in 1983 she was awarded a doctorate from the University of Navarra. She also received a special award with her Ph.D.

In 1986 she went on to work in the laboratories of Dr. Robert Gallo at Bethesda, studying new antiviral drugs. She has written 80 scientific papers and taken in part in 15 research projects.

In 2018 her research centre (CIMA) received over 2.85m euros from the "la Caixa" foundation to investigate liver cancer and relates liver problems. The "Hepacare" project was launched against a background of the 325m people worldwide who suffer with Hepatitis B infection and the realisation that liver cancer was second only to lung cancer as a cause of death from cancer,