Dr José Sánchez Morgado

Dr José Manuel Sánchez Morgado is  responsible for team that houses, cares and manages the animals used in biomedical research at the University, ensuring optimal animal welfare and compliance with all relevant legislation. He is a European veterinary specialist in Laboratory Animal Medicine with a research focus on microbiology and genetics in laboratory animals. He has co-authored around 15 scientific articles in the field of laboratory animal medicine and microbiology, and published, as editor and author, the first book on reproducibility of animal research of a five-volume monograph on laboratory animal science and medicine.

He has run an ECLAM Laboratory Animal Medicine residency program, set up the ESLAV’s Summer School and Winter School programmes to train veterinarians in laboratory animal medicine, and the ESLAV’s webinar series as continuous professional development. He is also part of the Irish National Committee for the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes.