Javier Bezos Garrido
Unit Chief
Clinical Trials Unit
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Diploma en Estudios Avanzados
Degree in Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Contact
Clinical Trials Unit
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain
e-mail:
Telephone: (+34) 91 394 4096
Fax: (+34) 91 394 3795
Biography
Degree in Veterinary Medicine in the Complutense University of Madrid (1996-2001) and Doctor in Veterinary Medicine in the same University with the thesis entitled "Caprine tuberculosis: study of the immune response and contributions to its diagnosis" (2011).
He currently works as a professor in the Department of Animal Health of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the UCM, to which he was previously linked as a Juan de la Cierva researcher. He is also a collaborator of the Mycobacteria Unit and the European Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Bovine Tuberculosis of VISAVET -UCM, where he is head of the Clinical Trials Service. His main line of research is related to the evaluation and improvement of diagnostic tests and vaccines against tuberculosis in domestic ruminants.
Author of more than 80 scientific publications in indexed journals and more than 200 presentations in national and international congresses. He has participated in more than 20 national and international projects and in the evaluation of co-funded tuberculosis eradication programs for the European Commission and as an invited expert for the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA). He has been part of the DEFRA Science Oversight Group for the development of experimental tests for vaccination against tuberculosis in cattle and various work groups related to the control and eradication of bovine tuberculosis. He collaborates as a reviewer and is part of the editorial panel of several international journals and has been included among the 20 largest experts in bovine tuberculosis in the world according to the Expertscape web portal. In recent years he has been mainly involved in conducting field and experimental tests for the evaluation, development and improvement of diagnostic techniques and vaccines against tuberculosis.
He currently works as a professor in the Department of Animal Health of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the UCM, to which he was previously linked as a Juan de la Cierva researcher. He is also a collaborator of the Mycobacteria Unit and the European Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Bovine Tuberculosis of VISAVET -UCM, where he is head of the Clinical Trials Service. His main line of research is related to the evaluation and improvement of diagnostic tests and vaccines against tuberculosis in domestic ruminants.
Author of more than 80 scientific publications in indexed journals and more than 200 presentations in national and international congresses. He has participated in more than 20 national and international projects and in the evaluation of co-funded tuberculosis eradication programs for the European Commission and as an invited expert for the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA). He has been part of the DEFRA Science Oversight Group for the development of experimental tests for vaccination against tuberculosis in cattle and various work groups related to the control and eradication of bovine tuberculosis. He collaborates as a reviewer and is part of the editorial panel of several international journals and has been included among the 20 largest experts in bovine tuberculosis in the world according to the Expertscape web portal. In recent years he has been mainly involved in conducting field and experimental tests for the evaluation, development and improvement of diagnostic techniques and vaccines against tuberculosis.
Investigation
Research lines:
Next scientific publications:
- Risalde MA., Roy A., Bezos J., Pineda C., Casal C., Diez-Guerrier A., Lopez-Villalba I., Fernandez-Manzano A., Moreno I., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Gortazar C.. Hypervitaminosis D has no positive effects on goat tuberculosis and may cause chronic renal lesions. The Veterinary Record. (A)
- Roy A., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Perez-Sancho M., Garcia N., Garcia-Seco T., Alvarez J., Romero B., Gortazar C., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Evaluation of a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in goat milk. Research in Veterinary Science. (A)
Last scientific publications:
- de la Cruz ML., Pozo P., Grau A., Nacar J., Bezos J., Perez A., Dominguez L., Saez JL., Minguez O., de Juan L. and Alvarez J.. Assessment of the sensitivity of the bovine tuberculosis eradication program in a high prevalence region of Spain using scenario tree modeling. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 173:104800. 2019. (A)
- Roy A., Tome-Sanchez I., Romero B., Lorente-Leal V., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Dominguez M., Martin C., Aguilo N., Puentes E., Rodriguez E., de Juan L., Risalde MA., Gortazar C., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Evaluation of the immunogenicity and efficacy of BCG and MTBVAC vaccines using a natural transmission model of tuberculosis. Veterinary Research, 50(1):82. 2019. (A)
- Lorente-Leal V., Liandris E., Castellanos E., Bezos J., Dominguez L., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Validation of a Real-Time PCR for the Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Members in Bovine Tissue Samples. Frontiers in veterinary science, 6(61):1-9. 2019. (A)
- Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Moreno I., Roy A., Risalde MA., Balseiro A., de Juan L., Romero B., Bezos J., Puentes E., Akerstedt J., Tessema T., Gortazar C., Dominguez L. and Dominguez M.. Specificity of serological test for detection of tuberculosis in cattle, goats, sheep and pigs under different epidemiological situations. BMC Veterinary Research, 15(1):70. 2019. (A)
- Alvarez J., Bakker D. and Bezos J.. Epidemiology and Control of Notifiable Animal Diseases. Frontiers in veterinary science, 43(6):1-2. 2019. (E)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
- Carmen Casal Comendador. Diagnosis of tuberculosis in ruminants and camelids: optimization of cell-based and humoral tests. 2016.(Laboratorios Ovejero Award, PhD Extraordinary Award, Europea)
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- Lorente-Leal V., Liandris E., Bezos J., Dominguez L., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Detección de las bacterias productoras de la tuberculosis bovina en tejidos mediante PCR directa. Ruminews, 74-79, Grupo de Comunicación Agrinews S.L.. 2019.
- Garcia-Seco T. and Bezos J.. Aborto ovino causado por Salmonella Abortusovis (aborto paratifoide). Albèitar Portugal, Grupo Asis. 2019.
- Bezos J., Romero B., de Juan L., Gonzalez S. and Saez JL.. Procedural manual for intradermotuberculinization and gamma-interferon tests performing. 2019-2020. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (MAPA) y Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). UCM.. 2019.
- Romero B. and Bezos J.. Ofensiva contra la tuberculosis en caprino. Tierras. Caprino, 24:60-65, OVIespaña. 2018.
- Briones V., Bezos J. and Alvarez J.. Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria: concepto y actualización. Profesión Veterinaria, 91(2018/19):20-23, Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Madrid. 2018.
Last communications:
- Bezos J.. En tuberculosis no se puede achacar todo a las técnicas diagnósticas. Profesionales. 2019. (Press interview)
- Pozo P., Minguez O., Grau A., Bezos J., Nacar J., Romero B., de Juan L. and Alvarez J.. To be or not to be (confirmed through bacteriology): spatial epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in a low prevalence region in Spain. GeoVet 2019. Novel spatio-temporal approaches in the era of Big Data. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Bezos J.. Immunological diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis. EU-RL for Bovine Tuberculosis Workshop. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Ortega FJ., Buendia A., Roy A., Lorente-Leal V., Vinolo C., Romero B., de Juan L., Infantes-Lorenzo JA. and Bezos J.. Evaluación de una nueva técnica diagnóstica ante-mortem de tuberculosis en ganado caprino: Actiphage Rapid. XXIV Simposio Avedila. 2019. (Oral communication)
- Bezos J.. Interferencia diagnóstica en la tuberculosis. Estudios de sensibilidad y especificidad. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2019. (Oral communication)
