Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences

• Ana Fernández Santander. Full Tenured Professor of Genetics (PI)
• Apolonia Novillo Villajos. Full Tenured Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universidad Europea
• Alicia Romero Lorca. Full Tenured Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Europea
• María Gaibar Alonso. Full Professor, Genetics, Universidad Europea
• María Fuencisla Gilsanz Muñoz. PhD Student at Universidad Europea
• María Esther Esteban Torné. Full Professor, Anthropology, Universidad de Barcelona
• Diego Malón Giménez. Doctor. Oncology Service. Fuenlabrada Hospital

• Genetic variability of current human populations.
• Pharmacogenetics in breast cancer.
• Pharmacogenetics in colorectal cancer.

• Ana Palomino. Academic responsible. Professor (PI)
• Iván García Guerrero. Professor
• María Valvanera Fernández Laso. Professor
• Natividad Montes Barqueros. Professor
• Ignacio Villafruela Rodríguez. Professor
• Nuria Moreno de Miguel. Doctoral candidate
• Sara Sánchez Fernández. Doctoral candidate

Behavioural neurophysiology

• Andrea Santamaría. Professor (PI)
• Jaime Orejas. Professor
• Meriem Benabdallah. Professor
• Nerea Urcelay. Professor
• Sabina Bertuol. Professor

• Digital implant impressions: performing in vitro and in vivo studies with stereophotogrammetry technology and comparing this technology with other intraoral scanners.
• Evaluation of the wear and tear of dental fillings using an intraoral scanner (this falls within the Cátedra 3M)

• Beatriz Gal Iglesias (PI)
• Clara Azpeleta Noriega. Full professor Physiology
• Esmeralda Parro Peralbo. Adjunct professor
• Marta Lesmes Celorrio. Adjunct professor
• Beatriz Navarro Galve. Full professor
• Ana Mª Sánchez del Moral. Full professor
• Antonio Sobrado Vicente-Tutor. Full professor
• Rosa Mª Pagán. Full professor
• Judit Sánchez Gómez. PhD student

External researcher

▪ Dra. Liset Menéndez de la Prida. External full professor. CajaL CSIC Institute

• Brain oscillations study programme
• Programme for the integration of core subjects in medicine

• Beatriz Sáez Pizarro. Catedrática. Health Science Department (PI)
• María del Mar Caja López. Investigadora. Full professor. Health Science Department
• Esther San José Martínez. Investigadora. Full professor. Health Science Department
• Aida Flores Aguilar. Investigadora. Full professor. Health Science Department
• Viviana Negri. Investigadora. Adjunct professor. Health Science Department
• María Mercedes Alonso Cascón. Researcher. Adjunct professor. Health Science Department

• The development and implementation of the Idea-Based Learning (IBL) method for students in the first two years of the Bachelor’s in Biotechnology.
• The development and implementation of an objectively structured examination (OSPE) to assess laboratory-based practical skills.
• Implementation of simulation platforms (Learning Science and Labster) in subjects with laboratory-based activities in the Bachelor’s in Pharmacy and Biotechnology.

• Cristina Sánchez-Camacho. Full Professor (PI)
• Iván Rodríguez. Full Professor
• Ana Rodríguez Learte. Full Professor
• Emma Muñoz. Full Professor
• María Antonia Cid. Adjunct Professor
• Miguel Marchena. Adjunct Professor
• Natalia Moracho. Predoctoral researcher
• Alejandra Mas. Student
• Alicia G. Arroyo. External tenured scientist (CIB)
• Cristina Clemente. External postdoctoral researcher (CIB)

• Development and Angiogenesis of the Nervous System
• Matrix Metalloproteinases in Angiogenesis and Inflammation
• Knowledge Dissemination and Transfer in Science: Neuroscience and Developmental Biology

• José Miguel Biscaia Fernández. Biomedical (PI)
• Elena Velarde Fernández. Full Professor
• Icíar Gárate Pérez. Full Professor
• Ricardo Llorente Miguel. External
• Daniela Grassi. Biomédicas. External
• José Gómez Sánchez. External
• Rosa María Pagán Marín. Full Professor
• David Vega Avelaira. External
• Eva María Marco López. External

• Neurobiological mechanisms of pain and inflammation: Study of the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of Alkana Tinctoria; analysis of the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of the active substance Alkannin, extracted from the Alkana Tinctoria plant, in an animal model of pain/inflammation. A manuscript presenting some of the experimental results is currently being written, and follow-up experiments are being prepared.
• Integration in Basic Biomedical Sciences: Development of projects related to teaching innovation in the area of core subject integration.
• Estrogen receptors and sexual differentiation.
• Cell biology of ageing.
• Scientific dissemination and hybrid studies blending the humanities and science.
• Teaching innovation in biomedicine.

• David Sanz Rosa (PI)
• Felipe Couñago Lorenzo (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)
• Ana Díaz Gavela (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)
• Israel J. Thuissard Vasallo (UEM)
• Elia del Cerro Peñalver (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)
• Antonio Maldonado Suarez (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)
• Raquel Murillo García (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)
• Luis Leonardo Guerrero Gómez (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)
• Julio Fernández Mata (Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud)

• Diagnostic and radiotherapy treatment advances for prostate cancer.
• Diagnostic and radiotherapy treatment advances for lung carcinoma.
• Adjuvant radiation therapy for breast cancer. Implementation of altered fractionations and clinical and dosimetric results. Integration with other therapies.

• Emilio Verche Borges. Professor (PI)
• Sonia Martins. Professor
• Teresa Diéguez. Professor
• Margarita Gómez. Professor
• Sara Vilas. Professor
• Elina L. Boycheva. Professor
• Eduardo Polín. Professor
• Ricardo de Pascual. Professor
• Beatriz Hidalgo Sanz. Professor

External collaborators

• Rocío Rodríguez Rey. Professor UPC
• Clara Gesteira. Professor UCM
• Rubén García. Professor UAM

• Coping, emotional regulation in difficult life situations, and psychosocial risk; trauma and resilience.
• Counselling and communication skills for mental health professionals.
• Evaluation and psychological intervention in health disorders.

• M. Esther San José Martínez. Professor
• Maria Teresa Coiras. Professor
• Jose Rivera. Professor

• Enhancing the effect of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on the immune system.
• Study of Th1-Th2 response in patients infected with SARS-Cov-2.

• Francisco Montesinos. Full Professor (PI)
• Marta Santacreu. Professor
• Alberto Bellido. Professor
• Lidia Budziszewska. Professor
• David Lobato. Professor

External colaborators

• Rocío Rodríguez-Rey
• Marisa Páez

• Use of virtual reality to train university students in coping with the fear of public speaking.
• Parental stress, health, and disabilities. A training programme in psychological flexibility in the COVID-19 era.
• Relationship between sexual dissatisfaction, hypersexuality, and psychological inflexibility.

• Jesús Fernández Lucas (PI)
• Daniel Hormigo. Senior researcher
• Elena Pérez Izquierdo. Senior researcher
• Jon Del Arco. Senior researcher
• Javier Acosta. Predoctoral researcher
• Victor Pisabarro. Undergraduate student

• New treatments against tropical diseases.
• Enzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogue derivatives of interest in the pharmaceutical and food industries.
• New quorum quenching (QQ) therapies as antibiotic agents.
• New suicidal-gene therapies for the treatment of cancer.
• Structural bioinformatics.
• Enzymatic synthesis of antifungals and ẞ-lactam antibiotics.
• Search for enzymes in extremophile organisms.
• New treatments against cancer using the enzymatic activation of prodrugs through enzymes immobilised in magnetic nanoparticles.
• Application of proteases in the food industry and environmental bioremediation.

• Jose Emilio Blanco Castro. Associate Professor. Dr. Biologist, Ethnobotanist (PI)
• Maria Jose Gutierrez Cisneros. Associate Professor Dr. Pharmacist. microbiologist
• Emilio Painter Holguín. Professor of Internal Medicine Physician

• Ethnobotany: traditional uses of plants.
• Ethnopharmacology: traditional medicinal plants and accompanying phytochemical analyses.
• Ethnomedicine: folk medicine in the broader sense.

• José Miguel Cachón Pérez (PI)
• Marta Rodriguez Garcia. Professor
• Ana María Giménez Maroto. Professor
• Inmaculada Lopéz Martin.Professor
• Elena Maria Saiz Navarro. Professor
• Pilar González Saiz. Professor
• Domingo Palacios Ceña. External
• Esther Martinez de Miguel. Professor
• Esther García García. Professor

• Teaching methodologies: evaluation of the different teaching methodologies used for training health professionals (nursing), such as clinical simulation and clinical settings for practical learning.
• Evaluation systems in nursing and the design of evaluation systems for structured objective clinical evaluation.

• Juan Luis González Pascual (PI)
• Isabel Font Jiménez. Professor
• Sara Esteban Gonzalo. Professor
• Juan Carlos Fernández Gonzalo. Professor
• José Miguel Mansilla Domínguez. Professor
• Pilar Caminero Luna. Professor
• Ana María Recio Vivas. Professor
• María Caballero Galilea. Professor
• Laura Collados Gómez. Professor
• Marcos Muñoz Balsa. Professor
• María José Solange Valdés Hernández. Professor
• Millán María Martínez López. Professor
• José Miguel Cachón Pérez. Professor

External collaborators

• Oscar Luis Veiga
• Laura Esteban Gonzalo

• Health and culture: Influence of cultural factors linked to immigration, indigenous populations, and/or institutions (universities, health systems) and/or the factors they are influenced by for the physical or psychological health of individuals or groups.
• Gender and health: Influence of gender roles and norms on the health of individuals or groups and/or the factors that influence these roles/norms.
• Clinical nursing: Aspects related to the care of healthy, at risk, or ill individuals or groups at any age and in any healthcare context (e.g., primary care and hospital care, including neonatal, paediatric, or adult intensive care units).

• Carlos de Aldama Sánchez. Adjunct Professor. (PI)
• Daniel García Pérez. Adjunct Professor
• Aldo Aguirre Camacho. Adjunct Professor
• Alejandra Koeneke Hoenicka. Adjunct Professor

External collaborators

• Gustavo González Cuevas
• Marcos Alonso Rodríguez

• Main Research Topics:
• Emotional recognition and brain electrical activity.
• Emotions, hormones, and cognition.
• Training assessment, information and communication framework and technologies, democracy and school participation
• Cognitive science and technology, cognitive artefacts, and technological thinking.
• ICT integration in educational contexts, game-based learning.
• Social networks and reasoning.

• Maria del Mar Larrosa Pérez (PI)
• Carlo Bressa Professor of Pharmacology. Pharmacy and Biotechnology
• Mª del Rocío González Soltero. Professor of Molecular Genetics. Biomedical Sciences
• Sara Martínez López: Professor of Nutrition and Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Biotechnology.
• María Bailén Andrino. External collaborator of the UAM
• Mariangela Tabone. Assistant Professor. Biomedical Sciences
• Fabio Cafini. Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. Biomedical Sciences
• Beatriz de Lucas Moreno. Postdoctoral Researcher. Doctoral and Research School
• Jose Angel García Merino. FPU Predoctoral Fellow.
• Diego Domínguez-Balmaseda. Assistant Professor Physiotherapy/Physiotherapy Doctoral Candidate.
• Ana Fraile. PhD student in Biomedicine
• Rita Manzano Prieto. Biotechnology undergraduate student. Santander Quarry Scholarship

• Influence of diet and physical exercise on intestinal microbiota, health, and quality of life.
• Influence of host genetics on the gut microbiota profile.
• Characterisation of microbial communities involved in the production of fermented foods and their relationship with consumer health.
• Psychonutrition and Digital Health.

• Margarita Rubio (IP)
• Asunción Hernando. Postdoc
• Manuel Martínez-Sellés. Postdoc
• Rosa Mohedano. Postdoc
• Ricardo Sainz de la Cuesta. Postdoctoral. Obstetrics and Gynecology Service. Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid
• Vicente Martínez de Vega. Predoctorate. Diagnostic Imaging Service. Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid
• Mar Jiménez de la Peña. Predoctoral. Diagnostic Imaging Service, Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid.
• Javier Carrascoso. Predoctoral Diagnostic Imaging Service Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid.
• Manuel Recio. Predoctoral Fellow Diagnostic Imaging Service Hospital Quirónsalud Madrid

• Epidemiological research in noncommunicable diseases: cardiovascular diseases, diagnostic imaging, and gynaecology.
• Epidemiological research in infectious diseases: HIV infection and the study of other infectious diseases.
• Educational Research.

• Maria Luisa Somacarrera Perez (PI)
• Carmen Martín Carreras-Presas
• María Milagrosa Diáz Rodríguez

• Study of oral manifestations of systemic diseases. (Systemic pathology and the oral cavity)
• Study of oral pathology.
• Cancer. Early diagnosis and new diagnosis methods for oral cancer.
• Saliva: diagnostic applications.
• Special patient care protocols.
• New methodologies and simulation.

• María Pilar Capilla Ramírez (PI)
• Marta López del Hierro Casado
• Emilia Condés
• María Jesús Pardo Monedero
• Gleyvis Coro Montanet
• María Victoria Tavera
• María Asunción Blanco
• María Olga Castelao
• Cristina Rius

• Creation of a tool to measure fidelity in simulation.
• Learning via Body Interact (virtual patient simulation training).
• Validity of the items in OSCE face-to-face medicine.
• Virtual simulation.

• Marta Muñoz Corcuera (PI)
• Ana Antoranz Pereda. Professor
• Beatriz Vizoso Noval. Clinical coordinator
• Miguel de Pedro Herráez. Clinical coordinator
• Gema Cidoncha Cabrerizo. Professor
• Ruth Pérez Alfayate. Professor
• Natalia Navarrete Marabini. Professor
• Gabriela Gil-Abando Lozano. Doctorate student
• Carolina Signorini. Doctorate student
• Paula Medina López-Chicheri. Doctorate student

Clinical dentistry in adult patients.

• Cristina Álvarez Peregrina (PI)
• María Magdalena Hawkins Solís
• Cristina Andreu Vázquez
• Clara Martínez Pérez

Colaboradores Externos

• Miguel Ángel Sánchez Tena
• César Villa Collar

• Myopia.
• Ocular surface and contact lenses.
• Clinical, hospital, and public health optometry.
• Visual quality and refractive surgery.
• Sports optometry.

• Natalia Cuesta Rubio. Profesora (PI)
• Alicia María Hidalgo Estévez. Professor
• Vinatha Sreeramkumar. Professor
• Javier Vicente Tejedor. Professor
• Manuel Fresno Escudero. External
• Gonzalo Sáez de Santamaría. Student

• TCFL5/CHA in the differentiation and activation of B and T lymphocytes and in the generation of leukemias.
• Neuromodulatory role of vitamin D in neurodegenerative pathologies. Comparison of different types of vitamin D administration and their effects on the retina.

• Natividad Pérez Villalobos. Vice-Dean of the Department of Veterinary Medicine UEM (IP).
• Cristina Andreu Vázquez. Assistant Professor of the Department of Medicine of the UEM.
• Rocío Queipo Matas. Assistant Professor of the Department of Medicine of the UEM and predoctoral student.
• Susana Astiz Blanco. External researcher. Senior Scientist at INIA
• Irene López Helguera. External researcher. Professor at the University of Lleida
• Raquel Patrón Collantes. External predoctoral researcher

• Strategies to improve productive performance in veterinary medicine.
• Evidence-based medicine in health sciences: One Health approach.
• Methodologies for educational innovation in the veterinary field.
• Methodologies for the promotion of research in veterinary and other health sciences.

• Roberto Estévez Luaña
• Víctor DÍaz-Flores García
• Francisco De La Torre De La Fuenter
• Óliver Valencia de Pablo
• Beatriz Tejedor Bautista
• Gaizka Loroño Goikoetxea
• Antonio Conde Villar
• Carlos Elzaurdia López
• Alfonso Martín Escorial

• Irrigation in endodontics.
• Anatomy in endodontics.

• Dr. Elisa Jiménez Cabré Full Professor in Biochemical Engineering (IP)
• Dr. Verónica Moral Dardé. Director of Health Sciences
• Dr. Paloma Santos Moriano. Associate Professor UEM
• Dr. Sonia Moreno Pérez. Professor of Enzymology UEM.
• Dr. Mónica Martínez Martínez. Associate Professor UEM
• Dr. Sara Gómez Quevedo. Associate Professor UEM

• Application and impact of active integrative methodologies in the field of biotechnological and pharmaceutical research.
• Exploration of new ways to transfer biotechnological and pharmaceutical research into the classroom.

• Gerardo Jose Joves Méndez (PI)
• Felisa Garcia Hoyos
• Julia Sanchez Ituarte
• Carmen Martin Carreras-Presas

External collaborators

• Toru Nikaido. School of Dentistry, Asahi University
• Monica Yamauti. Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University
• Juan Miguel Franganillo Garcia. UAX

Student

• Bo-Chiau Huang

• Salivary pH and dental degradation.
• Study of new bioactive and/or biomimetic materials for the prevention of dental caries.
• Saliva.
• Cariology and preventive, restorative, and adhesion dentistry.

• Javier Vicente Tejedor (PI)
• Miguel Gómez Boronat
• Marta Sánchez Montoya

External collaborators

• Francisco Germain Martínez. UAH
• José Manuel Tomás San Pedro. Clínica Baviera
• Román Blanco Velasco. UAH. HUG. X
• Rima Barhoum Tannous. UAH
• Laura Ramírez Martínez. UAH

Student

• Alejandro Rubio Moreno

• Development of a prototype for remote detection of respiratory failure in home patients infected with COVID-19.
• Development of supervised machine-learning classification algorithms (deep learning) for medical imaging. Detection of pneumonia and pneumothorax in adults and detection of paediatric pneumonia. The diagnosis of plasmodium (malaria) in peripheral blood smears was also studied.
• Development of machine-learning algorithms for predicting clinical events based on structured data.

• María Cantero García (PI)
• Laura Gallego-Alberto Martín
• Dimitra Manos
• Blanca Isabel Fernández Tobar

• Study of stereotypes and attitudes among young university students towards ageing and older adults.
• Study of young university students’ perceptions of their own ageing and the impact of these perceptions on students’ psychological health.
• Study of loneliness and its impact on the psychological health of the university population.

• Ascensión Blanco Fernández
• M. del Rocio Gonzalez Soltero
• Noelia Belando Pedreño
• Marta Montil Jiménez
• Andrés Arriaga Arrizabalaga
• Rosa Mª Rodriguez
• María Olga Castelao Naval
• Concepción García Santana
• Mª Isabel Ramirez
• Mª Victoria Tabera

Internal collaborators

• Joaquín Figueroa Palomero
• Mª de la Paz Cruz

External collaborators

• Juan Carlos Ruiz de Adana(Hospital de Getafe)
• Pablo Ruisoto Palomera (UPN)
• Mar Faya Barrios (HIUNJ)
• Ascensión Marcos (CSIC)
• Sonia Gómez Martinez (CSIC)
• Montserrat Graell Berna (HIUNJ)
• Luis Morán Fagundez (UPO Sevilla)
• Luis Zamora (UPO Sevilla)
• Mª Eugenia Moreno Garcia
• Agustín Pastor (Hospital de Getafe)

Students

• Susana Rodríguez Molina
• Luisa Marilia Cantisano
• Maria Montero
• Marta Tena

• Evaluation and development of mobile applications to promote healthy habits and lifestyles and to prevent eating disorders.
• Design and application of comprehensive interventional programmes in clinical and university settings for a therapeutic approach to obesity (21st-century pandemic) and other disorders related to eating and nutrition (anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorders, etc.) using three levels of intervention: psychology, nutrition, and physical exercise.
• Scientific dissemination of nutritional psychology research. Development of websites and scientific repositories and their dissemination through the media to prevent eating disorders and obesity.

• Montserrat Diéguez Pérez (IP)
• Begoña Bartolomé Villar
• Emilio Pintor Holguín
• Luz Torres Moreta
• Cristina Vilar Rodríguez
• Fátima Cerdán Gómez
• Ana de la Hoz Calvo
• Irene Real Benlloch

External collaborators

• Nuria Esther Gallardo López (UCM)

Students

• Laura Muñoz Cano

• Structural physiological changes during child growth and development. Started in 2017.
• Application of diagnostic improvement methods in paediatric dentistry. Started in 2017.
• Dental eruption chronology and current prevalence of eruption pathology. Started in 2019.
• Posturology and occlusion in children and adolescents. Started in 2018.
• Study of crossbite as a risk factor for oral pathology. Started in 2020.
• Cariology and prevention in disabled patients.
• Started in 2020.

• Oscar García Leal (PI)
• Eduardo Polín Alía
• Ricardo de Pascual Verdú
• Rebeca Pardo Cebrián

External Collaborator

• Vicente Pérez Fernández (UNED)

• Basic learning and adaptation processes.
• Behavioural analysis and its applications for social and health problems.

• Pablo Gella Montero (PI)
• Benjamín Herreros Ruiz-Valdepeñas
• Miguel Biscaia Fernández
• Cristina Coca Pereira
• Pilar Pinto Pastor
• Enrique Olivares Pardo
• Cristina López de la Torre

External collaborator

• David Berná Serna (UCM)
• José Miguel Hernández Mansilla (UAN)
• Beatriz Moreno Milán (Hospital la Fuenfría)
• Ramón Ortega Lozano (UAN)

• Bioethics.
• Philosophy of biomedicine.
• New hybrid methodologies in biomedical research.

• Rocío González Leal (PI)
• Andrea Calderón García
• Esther Martínez-Miguel
• Joaquin Figueroa Alchapar
• María Isabel Ramírez Goercke
• Cristina López de la Torre
• Esmeralda Parra-Peralbo
• María García Rodríguez

• Clinical nutrition at different stages of life.
• Nutritional epidemiology and public health.
• Food innovation and new trends in nutrition.
• Teaching methodology in nutrition.

• Víctor Díaz-Flores García (PI)
• Yolanda Freire Mancebo
• Beatriz Tomás Murillo

External collaborator

• Luis Daniel Pellicer Castillo (UEMC)

Student

• Eider Larrauri Barañano

• Patient safety in dentistry.
• Analysis of the chemical composition of dental materials.
• Legal liability in dentistry.