Chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Alfonso X el Sabio University:

Dr. Iris Núñez Trébol

PhD in Law and Vice-Rector for Research.

Secretary of the Committee

Dr. Irene Consuegra Fernández

PhD in Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Research Support Service

Member of the Committee

Dr. Isabel Rodríguez Hurtado

Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Member of the Committee

Dr. Rosario Baquero Artigao

PhD in Pharmacy, Vice-Dean and Research Coordinator of the Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences.

Member of the Committee

Juan Francisco Galán

Health Campus Manager

Member of the Committee

Dr. Olaya Tamayo Morales

Doctor in Neurosciences and Research Coordinator of the Vice-Deanship of Nursing, Psychology and Physiotherapy

Member of the Committee

Pedro de Mendizabal Vázquez

Data Protection Delegate of the UAX Group

Member of the Committee

Dr. Miguel Cervero Jiménez

Doctor of Medicine and Specialist in Internal Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and TFG at UAX

In order to request an evaluation of your research project from the Ethics Committee, you must submit the following documentation:

• Application for Evaluation of Research Projects
• Template for requesting project evaluation
• Compliance with data protection regulations
• Informed consent form
• Authorisation from the person in charge of the clinical centre where the research is to be carried out.
• Confidentiality commitment for external researchers.

• Standard procedure for the work of the Ethics Committee
• Guide to data protection regulations for dissertations, theses and doctoral dissertations.
• Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects
• European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
• Accredited Ethics Committee of the Autonomous Community of Madrid

The Alfonso X el Sabio University's strategic lines of research and innovation are closely related to the sustainable development objectives:

SDG 3. 21st Century Medicine

Ageing, prevalence - chronicity, healthy habits

• Smart Health
• One Health

SDG 4. Quality education for all, throughout life

• Educational innovation
• Technology for education

SDG 9. Disruptive transformation of business, economy and society

• Sustainable business
• Exponential technologies
• Sustainability (SDG 7) and Smart City (SDG 11)

Some of UAX's research projects:

• Strategic Project on Cybersecurity, Research, Education and Enterprise (PECIEE)
  • Coordinator: Consuelo Martínez López
  • Other Researchers: Santos González Jiménez, José Antonio Marcos García, Juan José Sánchez, Juan Manuel Matalobos, Jorge Calvo Martín.
  • Collaborating entities: INCIBE, University of Oviedo.
  • Area: Business&Tech
    
    
• Combination immunotherapies for canine gliomas and application of radiomics in the detection of predictive biomarkers.
  • Lead Researcher: Ana Judith Perisé Barrios.
  • Other Researchers: Javier García Castro, Isidro Mateo Pampliega, Fernando Aníbal Vázquez Fernández, David Sardón Ruiz, Paula Palau Concejo, Beatriz Davinia Tomeo Martín, Pablo Delgado Bonet, Clara Martín Carrasco, María Díez Vazquez, Lidia Revilla Laguna, Guénolé Boulard, María Sanz Zapata, Randolph J. Noelle, Hugo Arias Pulido, Ángel Torrado Carvajal, Borja Rodríguez Vila, María del Carmen Prieto de la Lastra, Blanca Delgado Bonet.
  • Collaborating entities: Vetsia Veterinary Hospital, Rey Juan Carlos University, Dartmouth University (NH, USA).
  • Area: Veterinary Medicine.

• Identification of immunological biomarkers associated with the cellular and humoral immune response related to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in HIV patients.
  • Lead Researcher: Rafael Rodriguez-Rosado.
  • Other researchers: Miguel Cervero Jiménez, Rafael Torres Perea, Maria Teresa Coiras López, Montserrat Torres Hortal, Sara Rodríguez Mora, Lorena Vigón Hernández, Jorge Muñoz Serrano, Estefanía Hermelinda López Muñoz.
  • Collaborating entities: HSO, Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
  • Area: Medicine.

• Study of the incidence of sperm DNA fragmentation in assisted reproduction.
  • Lead Researcher: Alberto Pacheco Castro.
  • Other Researchers: Rosario Baquero Artigao, Ana Judith Perisé, Juan Antonio García-Velasco, Lucía Sánchez Sánchez-Mellado, Javier Jodar Pérez, Ángel Grañeras Galiano.
  • Collaborating entities: Andrology Laboratory of Clínica IVI Madrid.
  • Area: Medicine.

• Study of the genetic factors associated with the development of sequelae in post-coital critical patients.
  • Lead Researcher: Rafael Blancas Gómez-Casero.
  • Other Researchers: Amanda Fernández Rodríguez, Óscar Martínez González, Nuria Almendro Motos, Miriam Chana García, Madian Manso Álvarez, Mª Ángeles Alonso Fernández, María Ángeles Jiménez Sousa, Eva Manteiga Riestra, Raquel Gómez Guardiola, Carola María Bledig.
  • Collaborating entities: (UIB-UAX), Hospital Universitario del Tajo (Aranjuez), Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina (Parla), ISCIII.
  • Area: Medicine.

• Metagenomic study applied in dentistry to evaluate the influence of the oral microbiota on hard and soft tissues. Population study.
  • Lead Researcher: Marta Macarena Paz Cortés.
  • Other Researchers: Andrea Martín Vacas, Juan Manuel Aragoneses Lamas, Carolina Muñoz González, Laura Barrientos Moral, Nuria Tamayo Estebaranz, Ana María Gil Valcárcel, Ana Isabel Álvarez Maya, Jaan Mirchandani Ramesh.
  • Collaborating entities: Clínica Pregrado García Noblejas, Uax, CSIC.
  • Area: Odontology

• Characterisation of molecular biomarkers in joint pathology in the sport horse.
  • Lead Researcher: Raquel Gómez Lucas.
  • Other Researchers: Ana Judith Perisé Barrios, Isabel Rodríguez Hurtado, Raquel Criado González, Jorge de la Calle del Barrio, Fernando Muñoz Hernández, Inés Martín Menéndez, Antonio Valiente Justo.
  • Collaborating entities: Hospital Clínico Veterinario - UAX, UIB-UAX.
  • Area: Veterinary

• Extracellular vesicles role in cancer cell-neutrophils tumour microenvironment modulation.
  • Lead Researcher: Alberto Benito Martin.
  • Other Researchers: Emilio Nuñez Borque, Vanesa Esteban Vázquez, Ana López Martín, Teresa Xue Lopez, Isabel Olazabal Olarreaga, Daniel Peña Jiménez, Mónica Yunta and Paula Palau.
  • Collaborating entities: Fundación Jiménez Díaz, CNIO, Hospital Severo Ochoa.
  • Area: Health.

• Generation of an adenovirus-associated vector for the transfer of a broad-spectrum neutralising antibody (bNAb) against HIV-1 that induces a low antibody response.
  • Lead researcher: Victor Manuel Sánchez Merino.
  • Other researchers: Daniel Antonio Bravo Vázquez, Eloísa López-Casamayor Justicia, María Rosario Baquero Artigao, María Eloísa Yuste Herranz.
  • Collaborating entities: (UIB-UAX), Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
  • Area: Health.