ProfessorJose Antonio Lopez-Escamez

Level 3 Supervisor, Neuroscience Theme

Faculty of Medicine and Health

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP SUMMARy

2026 Tinnitus Research Initiative Executive Board

2026 Co-Chair of Sensory, Neuroscience, Ageing Pain and Psychyatry (SNAPP) Research Focused Area, Kolling Institute 

2024 Hallpike-Nylen Medal. Barany Society. Uppsala

2024 American Tinnitus Association Scientific Advisory Committee.

2023 Kolling Discovery Science Research Award Best publication by a researcher at any career stage.Flook M, Escalera-Balsera A, Rybakowska P, Frejo L, Batuecas-Caletrio A, Amor-Dorado JC, Soto-Varela A, Alarcón-Riquelme M, Lopez-Escamez JA. Single-cell immune profiling of Meniere Disease patients. Clin Immunol. 2023 Jul;252: 109632.

2018-2023 Chair, Education Committee and Member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Society Otorhinolaryngology (SEORL)

2018 Frontiers Spotlight Award 2018. Research Topic: Vestibular contribution to health and disease. New York

2018 Global Otology Research Forum- Vestibular Research Prize. Politzer Society meeting 2018. Genetic Diagnosis of Autoimmune Meniere’s Disease.

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Spanish Society Otorhinolaryngology (SEORL)
    1 Jan 2021 - 1 Jan 2023
    Chair
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Frontiers Spotlight Award . Research Topic: Vestibular contribution to health and disease
    1 Jan 2018
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Global Otology Research Forum- Vestibular Research Prize. Politzer Society meeting .Genetic Diagnosis of Autoimmune Meniere's Disease
    1 Jan 2018
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Award Joan Gasso to publication:Extended phenotype and clinical subgroups in unilateral Meniere disease: A cross-sectional study with cluster analysis.'In: Clinical Otolayngology. ;1-9. DOI:10,/coa.12844
    1 Jan 2017
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitae Sacrum (CORLAS)
    1 Jan 2016 - 1 Jan 2023
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Program Committee, Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
    1 Jan 2016 - 1 Jan 2020
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Research Committee of the Spanish Society Otorhinolaryngology (SEORL)
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jan 2021
    Chair
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    3th award Ulyssess to best Medical Staff paper Best Spanish Research to 'Immunogenetic profile and endophenotypes in Meniere disease. CTO Foundation
    1 Jan 2011
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Disease subcommittee of Barany Society, Member of International Classification for Vestibular Disorders
    1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2015
    Chair
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Award Fundacion Juan Gasso to best oral Presentation Congress Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology (SEORL)
    1 Jan 2010
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Awarded Bronze medal of the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery. Meniere disease: from basic science to clinical medicine
    1 Jan 2009
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    First Prize Solvay Pharma to best publication in Otoneurology
    1 Jan 2009
  • AWARDS AND PRIZES
    Outstanding PhD Award, University of Granada, Spain
    1 Jan 1998
  • RECOGNITION
    Best Poster presentation XVI Spanish Congress Otorhinolaryngilogy.Bulbo yugular de posición alta y dilatación del seno sigmoide como causa infrecuente de acúfeno pulsatil'
    1 Jan 1996
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Barany Society
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitae Sacrum (CORLAS)
  • MEMBERSHIP
    European Society Human Genetics
  • MEMBERSHIP
    International Vestibular Society
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Reviewer panel for Chronic Inflammatory Disorders, Fundación Progreso y Salud
    Chair
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology