Work up to now

• IVF with in vivo matured pig oocytes.
• Employment of IVF with immature oocytes as a fertility test for boar quality semen.
• Different systems for porcine IVM: IVF and full development.
• Study of different factors involved IVF: maturational stage, cumulus cells.
• IVF with frozen-thawed semen. IVF as a tool for evaluating quality of frozen-thawed boar semen.

• Development of systems for porcine embryo culture: quality of embryos.
•  Improvement of freezing boar semen.
•  Study of oviduct and gametes interactions.
•  Development of ICSI in pigs. 

• Project: ”Contributions to pig genetic improvement through the development of the vitro fertilisation and sperm cryoconservation techniques”. Funded by the Science and Technology Commission (CICYT). 1996-1999.

• Project: “Development and validation of pig reproductive technologies: sperm cryoconservation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)”. Funded by European Funding for the Development (FEDER).1999-2001. 

• Co-operation Project: "Preservation and developmental capacity of in vivo and in vitro porcine embryos". Institut of Animal Science and Animal Behaviour. Dept. of Biotechnology. Mariensee (Neustadt), FAL, Germany. Funded by a Bilateral Agreeement Germany-Spain. Years 2000-2002.

• Enhancement of the in vitro production and transfer of pig embryos obtained by IVF (in vitro fertilization) and ICSI (Introcytoplasmic Sperm Injection).  CICYT. AGL2000-0485-C02-01. 2001-2003.