The Biosafety Committee of the Institutes of the National Academy of Medicine has members from the two institutes in which biological materials are used. The function of this committee is to provide advice, training and promoting safe management of biological risk. On the other hand, in conjunction with the Hygiene and Safety Commission from the National Academy of Medicine, is in charge of evaluating projects, prior to their submission, and new procedures in order to ensure compliance with safety and biosafety standards.

Members

Susana B. Goldstein de Fink, PhD (IMEX; President)

Carmen Stanganelli, PhD (IIHema; Secretary)

Vet. Hector Costa (IMEX)

Techn. Natalia Aloisi (IIHema)

Gabriela Salamone, PhD (IMEX)

Carlos de Brasi, PhD (IMEX and IIHema)

María Victoria Ramos, PhD (IMEX)

Florencia Sabbione, PhD (IMEX)

Evaluation Collaborators

Liliana Rosetti, PhD (IMEX)

Jeremías Galetti, PhD (IMEX)

Contact: bioseguridadanm@gmail.com

It is the responsibility of its members to contribute to maintaining the highest academic demands addressed to IMEX members.

One of its tasks is to endorse the research projects to be submitted by researchers and scholarship holders, taking into account their feasibility and compliance with the bioethics and biosafety regulations established by the IMEX and the ANM.

It is also the function of this committee to monitor the doctoral thesis carried out at the Institute in order to contribute to their successful development.

Members

Gabriela Fernández, PhD

Gabriela Salamone, PhD

Carlos De Brasi, PhD

Veronica Landoni, PhD

Liliana Rosetti, PhD

E-mail: cdiimexconicet@gmail.com

The National Academy of Medicine has an Ethics Committee for its four institutes with representative’s members from each one of them.

IMEX member

Mirta Giordano, PhD

E-mail: comitedeetica@anm.edu.ar

The Institutional committee for the care and use of experimental animals (CICUAL) was created by resolution of the IMEX Institutional board on July 22 of 2015, in order to ensure that activities that involve the use of animals for research or service carried out within the IMEX, are developed in a humanitarian manner and according to international ethical standards.

The functions of the CICUAL are:

• To observe and evaluate activities that involve the use of animals
• To ensure the well-being and good sanitary conditions of the animals used in the scope of the IMEX
• To guide the members of the institution in aspects related to the care and use of animals in the IMEX.
• To advise researcher’s teams on the basic principles of the  three Rs (refinement, reduction, replacement).
• To propose and provide training courses.
• To raise reports in the event of observation of conduct that violates international ethical standards within the IMEX Animal Facility.
• To interact with other committees of similar function.

Members

Vet. Hector Costa.

Techn. Gabriela Camerano.

Researchers working with laboratory animals:

Marina Palermo, PhD

Antonio Carrera Silva, PhD

Luis Castillo Montañez, PhD

Researcher who does not work with laboratory animals:

Marcelo De Campos Nebel, PhD

Biostatistics Specialty:

Myriam Nuñez, PhD

Mg. Christiane Ponteville (Ad honorem).

CICUAL Regulations

The functions of this committee are to evaluate future CPA members, regulatory reports, and requests for promotion of individuals belonging to the research and development career support staff.

Members

Paula Barrionuevo, PhD (Principal Coordinator)

Federico Fuentes, PhD (alternate coordinator)

Vet. Héctor Costa (Full Member)

Marcela González Cid, PhD (Full Member)

Mónica Vermeulen, PhD (Full Member)

Liliana Rossetti, PhD (Full member)

Members

Gabriela Fernández, PhD.

Romina Fernández Brando, PhD.

Mercedes Borge, PhD.

Alexia Vereertbrugghen, MSc.

Members

Analia Trevani, PhD

Luciana Balboa, PhD

Antonio Carrera Silva, PhD

The objectives of the commission are:

Identify unfavorable working conditions for women and diversities and/or situations of discrimination or violence due to gender reasons.

To generate spaces where experiences, realities, and specific content can be discussed to make visible and/or demolish limitations for the professional growth of women in science and promote actions that lead to the abolition of differences in opportunities between individuals due to their gender status.

To organize training activities and disseminate socio-cultural measures to insert individuals of any gender and cultural identity in the Institute and the scientific sector in general.

To articulate with other Gender Commissions of the university sector and/or Science and Technology.

Members

Bárbara Rearte, PhD

Liliana Rossetti, PhD

Daniela Montagna, PhD

Maria Belén Fontecha, MSc

E-mail: comisiondegenero@gmail.com

Members

María del Rosario Anadón, MSc.

Néstor Aznar, MSc.

Micaela Rosato, MSc.

Chiara Cassarino, MSc.

Valeria Sarapura Martínez, MD.

Mercedes Alemán, PhD.

E-mail: imex.difusion@gmail.com

Members

Romina Fernández Brando, PhD.

Irene Keitelman, PhD.

E-mail: vilandoni@yahoo.com.ar

fernandezbrandoromina@gmail.com

Members

Gabriela Salamone, PhD.