Excm. Sr. Javier MARTÍNEZ PICADO
Biographical note: ICREA Research Professor at the IrsiCaixa Immunopathology Research Institute in Barcelona. He is also an associate professor at the University of Vic-UCC. He obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Barcelona, where he also lectured as an associate professor. In 1996, he joined Massachusetts General Hospital as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he engaged in HIV/AIDS research. In 2000 he obtained the position of biomedical researcher at the Spanish Health Department appointed to the Hospital “Germans Trias i Pujol” in Barcelona. His current scientific interests focus on the characterization of immunovirological mechanisms of viral pathogenesis in human diseases, including HIV-1, Ebola virus, Arenaviruses, and more recently SARS-CoV-2. His program has a translational character with the goal of investigating new viral therapeutic strategies, especially in the HIV/AIDS field, through both basic and applied research. Dr. Martinez-Picado serves on different government, academic and industry advisory boards, and has published more than 250 articles on virology and immunology, mainly related to the pathogenesis of HIV, in international journals