Scientific Founding Members
Professor Ciril Rozman
Professor Rozman's training was undertaken entirely under the auspices of two great maestros of Catalan medicine: Professors A. Pedro Pons and P. Farreras Valentí. In 1967 he was appointed Chair of Pathology and Clinical Medicine at the University of Salamanca. In 1969 he succeeded his former mentors, as Chair of Medicine and Director of the School of Hematology
respectively, at the University of Barcelona.
He is one of the most outstanding personalities in the field of internal medicine, both in Spain and throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Since 1968 he has directed the seminal work in Spanish on internal medicine, Tratado de Medicina Interna Farreras-Rozman, of which there are now 18 editions, and is editor emeritus of the journal, Medicina Clínica.
At the present time he is emeritus professor at the University of
Barcelona and permanent member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia. For 24 years he was vice-president of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Foundation, the International Scientific Committee of which he currently presides.
In the field of hematology Prof. Rozman is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). His involvement in hematological therapy has focused on bone marrow transplants. He was the first person in Spain to perform an allogenic transplant. He has also devoted himself to the study of prognostic factors and to morphological and biological studies of malignant blood diseases. He was a driving force behind the establishment of Spain’s first hematopoietic
progenitor umbilical cord blood bank.
Professor Evarist Feliu
He studied under P. Farreras Valentí, A. Pedro Pons and S. Woessner worked for 20 years under the direction of Professors Ciril Rozman and Joan Lluís Vives Corrons. In 1975-76 and 1981-82 he undertook research at the University of Paris (Hospital Beaujon) and at Harvard University (Massachusetts General Hospital).
He was head of the Hematology Service at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol - HGTiP (1991-1995), medical director of the HGTiP (1995-97) and its administrative director (1997-2002). He has been the director of the Catalan Institute for Oncology (ICO) (2003-2009) and its scientific director. At present he is director of the University relations programme and the Head of the Hematology Laboratory service. He was Titular Professor of the Hematology Laboratory service and from 1985-97 he was Titular Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona (UB) and from 1997-2007 he held the same post at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Since 2008 he has held the Chair of Medicine-Hematology at the UAB.
He is a member of the board and scientific director of the Josep Carreras International Foundation, president of the Delegate Committee of the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute, vice-president of the Josep Carreras Foundation and Permanent Member of the Catalan Royal Academy of Medicine.
Prof. Feliu is a renowned researcher in the field of integrated procedures and methods for hematological diagnosis, especially electron microscopy for blood and bone marrow cells as well as studies into spleen disorders, and he has made important contributions to these at the national and international level.