On July 12, 1984, the first girl conceived by in vitro fertilization in Spain was born in Barcelona. That baby was named Victoria Anna, in honor of her scientific mother, IDIBELL group leader Anna Veiga. Veiga participated in the team led by Dr. Pere Barri and achieved this milestone in Spanish medicine. Today she is the protagonist of a new mural of the Dones de Ciència project, promoted by the

Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Las Naves innovation center of the Valencia City Council. From now on, anyone who comes to Pinedo beach will be able to see it on the facade of the public school in this Valencia district. The work of the artist Marta Lapeña (Ólvega, Soria) is the mural number 27 of a project that continues to grow, filling Valencian educational centers for more than three years with science and art in feminine terms. In the mural, a portrait of Anna Veiga stands out, accompanied by a second image with the reflection of her figure, “as a metaphor for everything she projects as a woman and as a scientist and everything she has contributed to society,” says Marta Lapeña. In addition, it includes symbolic references to Dr. Veiga’s research in stem cells and assisted reproduction.

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