Antonio Llombart-Bosch was born in San Sebastian (Guipuzcoa), Spain.  He graduated MD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia in 1959. From 1961 to 1975, he was an Assistant Professor of Pathology and then a Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, Spain. Beginning in 1975, he has been a full Professor of Pathology, then Vice Dean and Dean of the Medical School and Director of the Department of Pathology at the University of Valencia. He has contributed to over 280 journal publications. He has written 26 books and booked chapters and over 240 articles for International peer-reviewed journals. His major research efforts include Experimental and human renal carcinogenesis, Undifferentiated small round cell sarcomas in children, Experimental and human liver cancer, Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology of Solid Neoplasms in humans, Breast Cancer, and Descriptive pathology of human and experimentally induced neoplasms.