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Francisca Mulero Last update May/2010
Francisca Mulero was born in Mallorca and obtained her MD degree from the Universidad de Alicante and was awarded her MIR as a Fellow in Nuclear Medicine at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca in Murcia. She obtained her First Class Honours PhD degree from the Universidad de Murcia for her thesis that focused on the differential diagnosis of breast injuries with MIBITc-99m Scintigraphy.
Since 1994 she has worked as a Medical Scintigraphy Specialist at the Nuclear Medicine Department, the Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, focusing on imaging diagnosis and therapeutics. From 2005 – 2007 she worked as a Medical PET-CT specialist in the same Hospital. She was issued the Certifi cate of Supervisor of Radioactive Installations by the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) from 1998 to 2008 (currently active).
She obtained a Dupont Fellowship (1999 – 2000) for the study Tc-99m Sestamibi Scintimammography in the evaluation of response of breast carcinoma to chemotherapy and was awarded the following degrees in 2004: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanning in Breast Cancer, PET in the evaluation of Alzheimer and Dual modality PET/CT.
Francisca joined the CNIO in June 2007 as Head of the Molecular Imaging Unit responsible for the setting up, organisation and management of its activities.
