page_title: CEU Cardinal Herrera University
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: CEU Cardinal Herrera University / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate
context_page_description: CEU Cardenal Herrera University is a private university in Valencia, Spain. It is part of the CEU Foundation, being the first private school of Law ever founded in Valencia. It has been associated to the University of Valencia and Polytechnic University of Valencia since the early 1970s but the University gained its current name in 1999.
  The University has five faculties: Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty Of Veterinary, Faculty of Law, Business and Political Science, Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences and ESET Technical School of Engineering. CEU-UCH offers degrees in English, in French Médecine Vétérinaire and in Spanish. It boasts three modern campuses in Moncada, Elche and Castellón. CEU-UCH currently provides high quality teaching to over 7,000 students from all over Spain, especially the regions of Valencia, Murcia, Majorca, Ibiza, and Albacete. Every year, it also welcomes a rapidly growing number of international students with programs like European's Erasmus Programme, Socrates and Leonardo.
context_section_description: Notable alumni includes for example Federico Martínez Roda;, María José Catalá, a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party; Santos González, a Spanish professional road bicycle racer who won the Spanish National Time Trial Championship in 1999 and 2001 and won in 2000 a stage in Vuelta a España, where he finished fourth; Spanish actress and model Ana Milán who is the best known for her roles in television series 7 vidas, Camera Café, Yo soy Bea and Física o Química; Joana Chilet who is director of Canal Nou; Pepa Crespo who is Bioparc's director of communication; Máxim Huerta, host at the El programa de Ana Rosa
  Notable professors includes for example Manuel Zaera who works as Industrial engineering and Architecture teacher at the CEU-UCH and aerospace engineering at the European Space Agency. He worked ad professor at the Singularity University in 2010; Santiago Vega, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Complutense University of Madrid summa cum laude and master's degree from University of Lleida. Currently he is the Chancellor of the Faculty of Veterinary; José Enrique March, he graduated from CEU-UCH in advertising and currently he works as filmmaker; Manuel Ventimilla, professor at the CEU-UCH and at the Valencian Museum of Enlightenment and Modernity; Joaquín Ruiz, old student and currently audiovisual professor at the CEU-UCH. He won the prize for his documental "Calle Real 70" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival; Enrique Beltrán, prosecutor at the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Valencia; Susana Sanz who was reelected as expert of the European Commission for the LifeLong Learning Programme
  The university has some notarial honoris causa:
  Valentin Fuster is a Spanish cardiologist – the only cardiologist to receive the two highest gold medal awards and all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations: The Distinguished Researcher Award (Interamerican Society of Cardiology, 2005 and 2009), Andreas Gruntzig Scientific Award and Gold Medal Award (European Society of Cardiology, 1992-2007 respectively), Gold Medal Award and Distinguished Scientist (American Heart Association, 2001 and 2003 respectively), and the Distinguished Scientist Award (American College of Cardiology, 1993). Fuster made news in 2006 when he managed a patient who underwent successful combined heart and lung transplant, which New York Magazine named one of the year's "11 medical marvels". In November 2012, Dr. Fuster received the highest honor given by the American Heart Association, the Research Achievement Award. Dr. Fuster has ranked among the Top Doctors in the US for the past 13 years and is considered in the top 1% of physicians in the United States by Castle-Connolly.
  Jose Maria Aznar ([xoˈse maˈɾia aθˈnaɾ] (listen); born 25 February 1953) served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation and is also a member of the Club de Madrid.
  Antonio Cañizares Llovera (born 15 October 1945) is a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who is the current Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, having previously served as Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain from 2002 to 2008. Pope Benedict XVI created him Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio in the consistory of 24 March 2006. The Spanish primate was awarded a doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera on that same date. He will be eligible to participate in any future papal conclaves until he reaches the age of eighty on 10 October 2025
  Nora Volkow (b. 27 March 1956 Mexico) is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). She is the great-granddaughter of Russian revolutionary leader and Head of the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky. She attended the Modern American School, then earned a medical degree from National University of Mexico before going to New York University for psychiatric residency.  She chose a career in brain research after reading an article on the use of positro
caption: Stanley B. Prusiner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 2007
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