Our professionals
Dr. Gloria Liaño Esteso
Specialist in Radiology.
Primary focus on the planning and follow-up of lesions of both the CNS and the ENT area that are candidates for treatment with proton therapy, especially neoplastic lesions in both paediatric and adult patients.
Works at:
Madrid headquarters
Be part of:
Clínica Universidad de Navarra
Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra
Professional career
Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2003.
Specialist in Radiology at Getafe University Hospital, Madrid, 2009.
External placements at the Cardiac Morphology Unit at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London (London, 2003), and at the Musculoskeletal Radiology Unit at Maimonides Medical Center, New York, USA (2009).
RESEARCH AREAS
- She is currently collaborating on two research projects related to endolymphatic hydrops in patients with Ménière’s disease and to the treatment of intracranial tumour lesions with proton therapy.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Imaging evaluation and diagnosis
of diseases of the Central Nervous System and the Head and Neck region.
Activity
In teaching
- Honorary Lecturer from 2009 to 2013 in the Faculties of Medicine and Physiotherapy at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
- Clinical teaching collaborator in the Radiology Department of the Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid from 2013 to 2016.
- Medical collaborator in residency (MIR) training and teaching at Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina, Hospital Universitario La Paz and at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
In research
- She has presented several oral and written communications at national and international conferences related to her specialty.
- Author and co-author of two chapters in two continuing professional development Master’s programmes in Clinical Radiology.
- Contributor to 3 articles in scientific publications in international journals.

Scientific organizations
- Young Investigator Award. Blood Club. Central Society of Clinical Investigation. Chicago 1996.
- Award to the Best Project of Basic Applied or Clinical Research in Breast Cancer. Novartis: Effects of inhibition of tyrosine kinase activity of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family receptors on the regulation of breast cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis (2001).
- Rafael Hervada Award for Biomedical Research: Myocardial regeneration with autologous myoblasts: experimental and clinical study. Rafael Hervada Hospital. December 2005.
- Accesit to the Bayer-Schering-Pharma Award 2007 in Research on Lymphoproliferative Syndromes: Epigenetic regulation of Wnt-signaling pathway in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. XLIX AEHH National Meeting and XXIII SETH National Congress. Pamplona, October 2007.
- FEHH-ASTRA ZENECA Award 2007. Epigenetic regulation of human cancer/testis antigen gene, HAGE, in chronic myeloid leukemia. XLIX AEHH National Meeting and XXIII SETH National Congress. Pamplona, October 2007.
- BIAL Award 2009. The role of Epigenetics in the Prognosis and Pathogenesis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Lisbon. May 2009.