The boards that govern and oversee the activities and functioning of the ITB include the Institute’s General Council, the Executive Commission and the Management team. The General Council is made up of the Principal Investigators (PIs) at the institute, as well as a balanced representation of the contracted and staff researchers, the researchers in training, administrative and technical personnel.
Institute of Biomedical Technologies
Governing Bodies
Management team
Dr. Diego Álvarez de la Rosa
Director
Lecturer of Physiology, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, ULL.
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Between September 1, 2018 and December 21, 2019, Dr. Tomás González Hernández (Professor of Anatomy, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, ULL) served as the interim director until he was replaced on December 22, 2019 by the new director, Dr. Diego Álvarez de la Rosa (Lecturer of Physiology, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, ULL) following the elections held at the Institute on December 12, 2019.
Dra. Carmen María Évora García
Vice-Director
Professor in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology, ULL.
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She replaced Tomás González Hernández (Professor of Anatomy, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, ULL)
Ángel Acebes Vindel
Secretary
Contracted Lecturer, PhD Physiology, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, ULL
Email: aacebesv@ull.es
Executive committee
The Executive Committee is made up of the Director, who acts as the chairman, the Vice-Director, Secretary and the heads of the different research programmes.
Carlos Flores Infante
Head of the Programme of Genetic & Rare Diseases
University Hospital Nª Sª de la Candelaria
Estbena Porrini
Head of the Programme of Chronic & Age-Related Diseases
Department of Internal Medicine, Dermatology and Psychiatry, ULL.
Dra. Carmen María Évora García
Head of the Programme of Drug Development & Target Identification
Department of Chemical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology, ULL
Abraham Acevedo Arozena
Head of the Neurobiology & Brain-Related Diseases Program
University Hospital of The Canary Islands.
Niels Janssen
Head of the Neurobiology & Brain-Related Diseases Program
Department of Cognitive, Social and Organisational Psychology, ULL