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:
Last scientific publications:
- Melgarejo C., Planas C., Cobos A., Arrieta-Villegas C., Sevilla IA., Bezos J., Moll X., Espada Y., Garrido JM., Domingo M., Vidal E. and Perez del Val B.. A proof-of-concept study to investigate the efficacy of heat-inactivated autovaccines in Mycobacterium caprae experimentally challenged goats. Scientific reports, 12(1):22132. 2022. (A)
- Neila Mota C., Rebollada A., Bezos J., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Rodriguez-Bertos A.. Extracellular matrix proteins (fibronectin, collagen III, and collagen I) immunoexpression in goat tuberculous granulomas (Mycobacterium caprae). Veterinary Research Communications, 46(4):1147-1156. 2022. (A)
- Ortega J., de Juan L., Sevilla IA., Garrido JM., Velasco C., Romero B., Dominguez M., Perez del Val B., Nebot C., Saez-Llorente JL., Alvarez J. and Bezos J.. Effect of a recent parenteral dexamethasone and ketoprofen administration on the immunological diagnosis of tuberculosis in goats. Frontiers in veterinary science, 9:1042428. 2022. (A)
- Agullo-Ros I., Andrada M., Perez-Sancho M., Roy A., Bezos J., Bonnet T., Moreno I., Paz-Sanchez Y., Dominguez M., Gomez-Villamandos JC., Dominguez L. and Risalde MA.. Effect of heat-inactivated Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) vaccine on the lesions and immunopathology developed in target tissues of naturally MAP-infected goats. Veterinary Microbiology, 273:109543. 2022. (A)
- Pozo P., Lorente-Leal V., Robbe-Austerman S., Hicks J., Stuber T., Bezos J., de Juan L., Saez-Llorente JL., Romero B., Alvarez J. and on behalf of the Spanish Network on Surveillance Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis.. Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing to Unravel the Genetic Diversity of a Prevalent Mycobacterium bovis Spoligotype in a Multi-Host Scenario in Spain. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13:915843. 2022. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
- Pilar Pozo Piñol. Use of Epidemiological Analytic Tools and Molecular Characterization Techniques to Inform Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Programs. 2020.(Doctorado Europeo)
- Álvaro Roy Cordero. Evaluation of new vaccines against tuberculosis in goats and advances in their immunological diagnosis. 2020.
- Carmen Casal Comendador. Diagnosis of tuberculosis in ruminants and camelids: optimization of cell-based and humoral tests. 2016.(Laboratorios Ovejero Award, PhD Extraordinary Award, Doctorado Europeo)
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- de Juan L., Alvarez J., Balseiro A., Bezos J., Bru G., Garrido J., Gonzalez S., Gortazar C., Martinez A., Perez B. and Romero B.. Tuberculosis. Conocida y compartida. Actualidad redrisa.es, Red de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (RISA). 2022.
- Cruz F., Gonzalez S., Barcena C., Bezos J., Buendia A., Briones V., Camino E., Fores P., Garcia N., Mazariegos M., Perez-Sancho M., Romero B. and de Juan L.. Infequus: Plataforma de enfermedades infecciosas equinas. Jornada Aprendizaje Eficaz con TIC en la UCM. Ed. 1. Ediciones Complutense. 2022.
- Romero B., Bezos J., de Juan L., Lozano F., Gonzalez S., Perales A. and Saez JL.. Toma y envío de muestras para diagnóstico mediante PCR directa y cultivo microbiológico en infecciones por miembros del Complejo Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (MAPA) y Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). UCM.. 2021.
- Gonzalez S., Lozano F., Alvarez J., Romero B., Bezos J. and de Juan L.. Tuberculosis in the new Animal Health Law. VISAVET Outreach Journal, VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (U.C.M.). 2021.
- Roy A., Dominguez L., Puentes E. and Bezos J.. Evaluación de nuevas vacunas frente a la tuberculosis caprina. Tierras. Caprino, 33:20-25, Sociedad Española de Ovinotecnia y Caprinotecnia. 2021.
Last communications:
- Romero B., Alvarez J., Bezos J., Dominguez L., Lozano F., Rodriguez-Bertos A. and de Juan L.. Nuevos avances científicos de los Grupos de investigación. Laboratorio de Referencia Europeo (EU-RL) de Tuberculosis Bovina. II Workshop Ibérico en Tuberculosis Animal. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Alvarez J., Bezos J., Dominguez L., de Juan L., Gómez-Buendía A., Lorente-Leal V., Lozano F., Ortega J., Pozo P., Rodriguez-Bertos A. and Romero B.. Nuevos avances científicos de los Grupos de investigación. Grupo de Investigación: Servicio de Micobacterias - Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET-UCM). II Workshop Ibérico en Tuberculosis Animal. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Bezos J.. Diagnóstico de tuberculosis: dilema entre tradición y vanguardia. II Workshop Ibérico en Tuberculosis Animal. 2022. (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. 2022. (Oral communication)
- Bezos J.. Pruebas de diagnóstico de la tuberculosis basadas en la respuesta inmune: intradermotuberculinización, detección de interferón-gamma y serología para la detección de anticuerpos. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2022. (Oral communication)
