Members of the Innovation Unit


The Innovation unit is made up of a team of collaborators with extensive experience in research and technology transfer:



  • Innovation Unit Director: Carmen Ayuso García
  • Innovation Unit personnel:
    • Coordinator: Alberto Ortiz Ardúan
    • Research personnel: Victoria del Pozo Abejón, Damián García-Olmo, Raquel Largo Carazo.
    • Technology transfer management personnel: Isabel Orbis Ramírez
  • Clinical and basic scientific personnel to advise and support the Innovation Unit: Dr. J. Esteban, Dra. P. Llamas, Dr. A Celdrán, Dr Cenjor, Dr. Jiménez Alfaro, Dr. S Jiménez de los Galanes, Dr. I Fernández Navamuel, Dra. C Gómez Guerrero, Dr. L Blanco Colio, Dr. Mariano García Arranz, Dr. Juan Antonio Bueren, Dra. Marcela del Río, Dr. Ruiz Tovar, Dr. Francisco Javier Ruiz Hornillos.
  • Technology platform personnel: Dra. G. Álvarez Llamas, Dra. R Fernández, M González García-Parreño, Dra. Lucía Llanos, Dra. Sandra Zazo.
  • Person responsible for research management: Alberto Montero Manso.



Our objectives and functions



The strategic objectives of the unit are:


  1. Facilitate the transfer of research results to society and health in general by continuously improving the quality of patient care as well as commercial returns.
  2. Promote innovative culture in the IIS-FJD health sector and field
  3. Promote the internationalisation of R&D+i projects
  • Provide training to personnel in innovation.
  • Identify innovative ideas that can be converted into products or services.
  • Support the development of innovation projects (support services for the projects generated, management of intellectual and industrial property, technology transfer)
  • Support the intellectual and industrial protection of innovations
  • Promote collaboration agreements in R&D+i projects with agents of the scientific-technological field, universities, companies, etc., both nationally and internationally



In order to fulfil these objectives, the Unit performs the following functions:

  1. Detection of ideas.
  2. Valuation and protection of ideas.
  3. Support in the implementation and development of ideas.
  4. Protection of the results obtained
  5. Transfer to the market of the results obtained