Research lines

  • Application of Gas Chromatography- coupled to Mass Spectrometry to the determination of drugs and substances of abuse in forensic toxicology (Bermejo Barrera and Tabernero Duque)
  • Application of Liquid-Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry to determine drugs of abuse in biological fluids. (Dra. Ana de Castro, Prof. Cruz Landeira, Prof. López-Rivadulla, Dra. Elena Lendoiro).
  • Assessment of collection devices to detect drugs of abuse in saliva. Application to roadside testing. (Prof. López-Rivadulla, Prof. Cruz Landeira, Dra. Elena Lendoiro, Dra. Ana de Castro).
  • Bodily harm assessment (Ordóñez Mayán, Muñoz Barús)
  • Determination of drugs of abuse in hair. Applications in the clinical and medical-legal field (Tabernero Duque and Bermejo Barrera).
  • Development of analytical methodologies using microsampling techniques and its application to determine pharmaceuticals and drugs of abuse. (Dra. Ana de Castro, Dra. Elena Lendoiro, Prof. Cruz Landeira, Prof. López-Rivadulla).
  • Intimate partner violence (Ordóñez Mayán, Muñoz Barús)
  • Medical Legal Identification (Muñoz Barús)
  • Monitoring of mortality due to Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) in the Galician Autonomous Community (Bermejo Barrera and Tabernero Duque)
  • New markers for alcohol and drug intoxications (Tabernero Duque and Bermejo Barrera)
  • New microextraction techniques applied to biological samples of forensic toxicology (Tabernero Duque and Bermejo Barrera)
  • Post mortem interval (Ordóñez Mayán, Muñoz Barús)
  • Screening and confirmation of pharmaceutical, drugs and alcohol in clinical cases. (Prof. Cruz Landeira, Prof. López-Rivadulla, Dra. Ana de Castro, Dra. Elena Lendoiro).
  • Study of alternative biological matrices for the determination of drugs and substances of abuse (Bermejo Barrera and Tabernero Duque).
  • Study of alternative biological matrices to determine pharmaceuticals and drugs of abuse. ( (Dra. Elena Lendoiro, Dra. Ana de Castro, Prof. Cruz Landeira, Prof. López-Rivadulla).
  • Study of biomarkers of toxicity using cell models due to exposition to new psychoactive substances. ( (Dra. Elena Lendoiro, Dra. Ana de Castro, Prof. Cruz Landeira, Prof. López-Rivadulla).
  • Submersion death (Muñoz Barús)
  • Toxicogenetic study of drugs and substances implicated in intoxications and deaths due to addiction (Bermejo Barrera and Tabernero Duque).