The UMH will invest the allergist Mariana Concepción Castells Guitart as an Honoris Causa Doctor in Santo Tomás de Aquino

Mariana Concepción Castells Guitart, an allergist and pioneer in pharmacological desensitization, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) during the celebration of the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas, to be held on January 28 at 12:00 noon in the Rectorate and Social Council building on the Elche campus. The new Doctor Honoris Causa’s sponsor will be Professor Emeritus of Medicine Francisco Javier Fernández Sánchez.

Since the 1990s, Castells Guitart has been a researcher and professor at Harvard Medical School (USA), where she directs the Center for Drug Desensitization and Hypersensitivity and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mastocytosis Center. Her work has transformed how medicine addresses drug allergies, especially in cancer patients. She has developed drug desensitization protocols that are now applied as international standards, allowing thousands of people to continue their treatments without endangering their lives. Another of her key research areas is mastocytosis, a rare type of blood cancer that occurs when mast cells—immune cells involved in allergies—multiply and release inflammatory substances uncontrollably. Castells has established new diagnostic and therapeutic methods for mastocytosis and has spearheaded clinical trials with tyrosine kinase inhibitors, a class of drugs capable of halting this abnormal cell activation.

Invitation DHC Santo Tomás

CEREMONIAL STO TOMAS 2026 SPANISH

CEREMONIAL STO TOMAS 2026 VALENCIAN

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