Javier Bezos Garrido
Unit Chief
Clinical Trials Unit
Associate Professor
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 3910
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:
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Gómez-Buendía A., Grau A., Lopez M., Alvarez J., Romero B., de Juan L. and Bezos J.. Evaluation of the Effect of a Recent Comparative Intradermal Tuberculin Test on the Humoral Diagnosis of Paratuberculosis Using Serum and Milk Samples from Goats. Veterinary sciences, 11(3):105. 2024. (A)
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Rincón-Fernández de la Puente J., Romero B., de Juan L., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Alvarez J. and Bezos J.. Effect of a recent intradermal test on the specificity of P22 ELISA for the diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis. Frontiers in veterinary science, 11:1-7. 2024. (A)
- Gómez-Buendía A., Alvarez J., Bezos J., Mourelo J., Amado J., Saez-Llorente JL., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: occurrence in skin test cattle reactors from official tuberculosis-free herds. Frontiers in veterinary science, 11:1361788. 2024. (A)
- Bezos J., Saez-Llorente JL., Alvarez J., Romero B., Diez-Guerrier A., Dominguez L. and de Juan L.. Bovine tuberculosis in Spain, is it really the final countdown?. Irish veterinary journal, 76(Suppl 1):13. 2023. (A)
- Gómez-Buendía A., Romero B., Bezos J., Saez-Llorente JL., Archetti I., Pacciarini M., Boschiroli ML., Girard S., Gutu E., Barbuceanu F., Karaoulani O., Stournara A., de Juan L. and Alvarez J.. Evaluation of the performance of the IFN-y release assay in bovine tuberculosis free herds from five European countries. Veterinary Research, 54(1):55. 2023. (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 Internacional y Doctorado Industrial)
- Álvaro Roy Cordero. Evaluation of new vaccines against tuberculosis in goats and advances in their immunological diagnosis. 2020.(Doctorado Internacional y Doctorado Industrial)
- 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:
- Martucciello A ., Mazzone P., Napolitano F., Bezos J., Grandoni F., Boniotti MB., Cagiola M., Cappelli G., Di Vuolo G., Galiero G., Signorelli F. and De Carlo E.. Intradermal Tuberculin Test in Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis): Experimental use of Mycobacterial Antigens for the Diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis. Journal of Buffalo Science, 13:46-52, Lifescience Global Inc. 2024.
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Roy A., Ortega J., Romero B., Alvarez J., Dominguez M., Moreno I., Diez-Guerrier A., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Mejorando el diagnóstico para ayudar en la erradicación de la tuberculosis en los rumiantes domésticos: el proyecto internacionalo imdiTBap. Ruminews, Noviembre 2023, Agrinews. 2023.
- Velasco-Reinaldos C., Ortega J., Lorente-Leal V., Romero B., de Juan L. and Bezos J.. Nuevas metodologías para el diagnóstico ante-mortem de la tuberculosis bovina, ¿tiene futuro?. Tierras Vacuno, 1, Novaágora. 2023.
- Lorente-Leal V., Pozo P., Bezos J., Alvarez J., Perez del Val B., Gortazar C., de Juan L. and Romero B.. La secuenciación masiva al servicio de la Tuberculosis. Actualidad redrisa.es, Red de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (RISA). 2023.
- 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.
Last communications:
- Bezos J.. General information about the project. 3rd imdiTBap meeting. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Bezos J., Velasco-Reinaldos C. and Roy A.. Presentations, results and discussion of imdiTBap. VISAVET-UCM/EURL bTB. 3rd imdiTBap meeting. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Bezos J.. Fallos de inmunidad por exceso y defecto. VIII jornada ADS Galicia Vacunología y EHE bovina. 2023. (Web interview)
- 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. 2023. (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. 2023. (Oral communication)
