Multiple Sclerosis

2025 Activity indicators

  • 1 competitive European project: IMI (3TR)
  • 3 competitive national public projects: ISCIII
  • 9 private projects led
  • 32 clinical studies led
  • 26 publications
  • IF: 129.70
  • Publications in Q1: 18 (69%)
  • Publications in D1: 7 (27%)
  • 1 supervised doctoral thesis defended
  • 5 awards
  • Evaluators for national public agencies: 1 PI
  • Editorial committee members: 2 PI
  • 1 European patent application EP23383037.1 for predictive biomarkers of response to ocrelizumab treatment in patients with multiple sclerosis, with PCT/EP2024/078404
  • 1 European patent application EP25382695.2 for identifying cellular and molecular factors (Treg) with inflammation and neurodegeneration in MS
  • 1 CC-BY-ND-NC intellectual property registration with reference 2306134577905, for Protecting an MS patient monitoring app
  • 1 trade secret registration in Safe Evidence, with private blockchain block no. 1449658, to protect the algorithm of the MS patient monitoring app
  • 8 visitors hosted and 36-month stay:
    • Technical University of Madrid
    • Autonomous University of Madrid

Milestones

  1. Leading the MS research line of WP6 for the identification of treatment response biomarkers in various autoimmune diseases, within the framework of the European project 3TR - "Taxonomy, Treatment, Targets and Remission: Identification of the Molecular Mechanisms of non-response to Treatments, relapses and remission in Autoimmune Inflammatory Conditions".
  2. Identification of immunological mechanisms that play an important role in acute inflammation and neurodegeneration in MS, using advanced cytometry, proteomics, and metabolomics studies, yielding new therapeutic targets: two articles published in Front Immunol (doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1648725 and doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1729500) and one article in Int J Mol Sci (doi: 10.3390/ijms26146898).
  3. Publication of a clinical guideline/consensus document, in collaboration with the Spanish Society of Neurology, for the use of sNfL as a biomarker in MS (doi: 10.1016/j.nrl.2025.501928).
  4. Implementation in clinical practice of the use of sNfL as a biomarker in MS patients in the Community of Madrid, and of sGFAP at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital.
  5. Establishment of Mautilus Ehealth, a startup born from the MISIÓN IRYCIS 2030 program, to revolutionize MS monitoring with artificial intelligence. EMCare is its main product, a mobile app that passively and non-intrusively monitors physical variables to predict the risk of MS progression, facilitating early detection for neurologists. Renewal of agreements and signing of new contracts with various pharmaceutical companies (Roche Farma, Meck, Novartis, Neuraxpharm, and Bristol Myers Squibb) to quantify sNfL and sGFAP through the SCT "Precision Immunological Markers" led by the group. Initiation of eight new clinical trials.

Bibliometrics

  Articles Accum. IF Mean IF Articles Q1 or Q2  % in Q1 or Q2 Articles D1 % in D1
2021 38 315.39 8.30 26 68 10 26
2022 30 151.34 5.04 25 83 1 3
2023 28 156.53 6.52 19 68 5 18
2024 36 166.62 5.04 32 89 6 17
2025 26 129.70 5.64 23 88 7 27
  158 919.58 6.11 125 79 29 18

* Only original articles, editorial material, guidelines and reviews.

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