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Lizet Sanchez Valdes

Country of origin: Cuba Currently in: Cuba, Havana General field of specialization: Mathematical sciences
Academic Background

Degrees

2006 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
2023 Doctorate Mathematical sciences
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences

Statistical methods in early drug development and post-authorization study. Evaluation of long term survival in cancer. Identification of predictive biomarkers of therapeutic success. Modelling infectious diseases. Evaluation of public health intervention.


Publications resulting from Research: 


Ortiz Carrodeguas, R. A., et al. (2024). "Safety and effectiveness of CIMAvax-EGF administered in community polyclinics." Frontiers in Oncology 13: 1287902.

De Witte, D., et al. (2023). "A multivariate spatio-temporal model for the incidence of imported COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 deaths in Cuba." Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 45: 100588.

Sánchez, Y., et al. (2023). "Nimotuzumab Concurrent with Gemcitabine as First‐Line Treatment of Locally Advanced or Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma." BioMed Research International 2023(1): 1496072.


Diaz, H., et al. (2022). "Nimotuzumab Increases the Recovery Rate of Severe and Critical COVID-19 Patients: Evaluation in the Real-World Scenario." Frontiers in Public Health 10: 948520.

Alonso A et al. (2022). "Identifying individual predictive factors for treatment efficacy". Biometrics. 78(1):35-45.

Más-Bermejo, P. I., et al. (2022). "Cuban Abdala vaccine: Effectiveness in preventing severe disease and death from COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba; A cohort study." The Lancet Regional Health–Americas 18:100422

Caballero, A., et al. (2020). "Treatment of COVID‐19 patients with the anti‐CD6 antibody itolizumab." Clinical & Translational Immunology 9(11): e1218.

Lorenzo-Luaces, P., et al. (2020). "Identifying predictive biomarkers of CIMAvaxEGF success in non–small cell lung cancer patients." BMC cancer 20: 1-8.

Sanchez, L., et al. (2018). Differential effects of two therapeutic cancer vaccines on short-and long-term survival populations among patients with advanced lung cancer. Seminars in Oncology, 45(1-2):52-57.

Sebrango-Rodríguez, C. R., et al. (2017). "Real-time parameter estimation of Zika outbreaks using model averaging." Epidemiology & Infection 145(11): 2313-2323.



Current profession

Current professional activities type: 
Research
Statistical modelling applied to biomedical and health science

Workshop and Conference Attended

2023 Havana COMPUMAT
2022 Havana BioHabana
2021 Mexico Moving from COVID-19 Mathematical Models to Vaccine Desing: Theory, Practice and Experiences
Prizes, Grants and Awards

Other Awards

Jun 2023
Award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences
1-Epidemiological evaluation of risks, equity and results of vaccination in the sustainable control of COVI D-19 in Cuba. 2-Clinical and seroepidemiological surveillance of dengue in Havana. 1997-2019. 3-Repositioning of the Cuban humanized monoclonal antibody Nimotuzumab in the treatment of patients with COVID-19,
Aug 2023
National Award for Technological Innovation
Social impact of scientific modeling in the multidisciplinary confrontation of COVID-19 in Cuba
Jul 2021
Sofia Kovalevskaya Mathematics Prize, research category
The acknowledgement is sponsored by the Kovalevskaya Foundation and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing of the University of Havana, and its purpose is to encourage women from developing countries to participate actively in the scientific and technological life of their nations.

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