Jaime Gosalvez

Biography

Professor Jaime Gosálvez is a permanent member of the Department of Genetics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Biology with specialization in Genetics in 1979. Prof. Gosálvez has visited several overseas institutions for research collaboration such as: the University of East Anglia (Prof. GM Hewitt, UK), Medical Research Centre in Edinburgh (Dr. A Summer, UK), Dipartimento de Biología di la Universitá di Cagliari (Dr. V Mezzanotte, Italy), Hospital Juan Canalejo in La Coruña (Dr. JL Fernández and V Goyanes, Spain). As an active person in academia he is in-charge of courses of Molecular Cytogenetics, Models and Evolutive Processes and Advanced Technologies for Biology. His special interests are in the area of Genetics (Molecular Cytogenetics) with special emphasis in DNA structure and function. As defined by his alter-ego (Dr. C López-Fernández) in the laboratory he conducts, he could be considered a "Chromosome Lover". Nowadays, he is deeply involved in the analysis of different aspect of the DNA molecule in the sperm and their possible implications in male infertility, with special emphasis in human, other mammalian species and fish, as well as those clinical aspects of the male factor to achieve pregnancy. In full coordination with Dr. JL Fernández and Dr. V Goyanes, the Sperm Chromatin Dispersion Test (SCD) was developed and patented. On the basis of this patent, which belong to the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, some comercial products have been developed with the basic SCD technology. Dr. Gosálvez has published more than 210 original articles and around 190 abstracts have been presented in different national and international meetings. Graphic material of some articles were selected by the editorial board as front-page in journals such as Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, Genome, Experimental Cell Research, Fertility and Sterility, Journal of Andrology (2) and Biotech. Also, he has published 15 book chapters in the area of Cytogenetics and sperm quality assessment and has edited two books. He has been the Principal Investigator of more than 30 national and international competitive research applications, fully financed. He participates as an active reviewer of National and International Research projects and scientific journals. He is co-author of two patents with world-wide protection and exploited by different companies and he acts as a free-external advisor for scientific aspects of the methodologies patented and licensed by the Autónoma University under University-Private Companies contracts. He acts as one of the scientific assessors of the Madrid Technological Park, where most of the emerging spin-off companies are located and he is member of the committee of the Socrates-Erasmus European mobility program for student interchange.  

Research Interest

Crytogenetics and sperm quality assessment