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José Miguel Rubio (Madrid) Doctor en Biología por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1992). Desde 1998 es miembro del Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Científico Titular, Responsable de la Unidad de Malaria y Parasitosis Emergentes del Centro Nacional de Microbiología. Forma parte del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC/ISCIII). Ha publicado más de 100 artículos en revistas indexadas internacionales, 10 capítulos de libros y ha sido coeditor de dos libros dentro del área de malaria, medicina tropical y enfermedades olvidadas
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Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD.
Dr. Fernandez-Sesma is a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). Her research focuses on the modulation of innate immunity by viruses, like dengue, influenza and others. She participates in several multi-investigator OMICS projects to study human immune responses to infection and vaccination. She has served on NIAID, DoD and CDC study sections and was member of the Scientific Council of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) Division at NIH/NIAID from 2018-2022. She co-directed the Microbiology PhD program at ISMMS for 10 years. She has co-authored numerous publications in Virology and Immunology journals and served on the editorial board of Journal of Virology, mSphere and PLoS Pathogens. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, was awarded the 2024 ACES-Margarita Salas award and is the chair of the 2025 “Viruses and Cells” Gordon Conference
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Dr. García-Sastre is Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York. He is also Director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute at ISMMS. For the past 30 years, his research interest has been focused on the molecular biology, virus-host interactions, innate immunity and pathogenesis of influenza viruses and several other RNA viruses, as well as on the development of new vaccines and antivirals. He has more than 700 peer-reviewed publications in these areas of research. In 2019, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Inventors.
Dr. García-Sastre is Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York. He is also Director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute at ISMMS. For the past 30 years, his research interest has been focused on the molecular biology, virus-host interactions, innate immunity and pathogenesis of influenza viruses and several other RNA viruses, as well as on the development of new vaccines and antivirals. He has more than 700 peer-reviewed publications in these areas of research. In 2019, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Inventors.
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David Navarro graduated from Medical School at the University of Valencia (Spain) in 1985 and achieved his Doctor of Medicine degree in Microbiology and Immunology in the University of Valencia, Spain in 1989. He completed a postdoctoral research associate job (1989-1991) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
He is currently Full Professor of Microbiology in School of Medicine of Valencia and Head of the Microbiology Service at the Clinic University Hospital, Valencia. His research activity mainly concerns diagnostic, clinical, biological and pathogenesis aspects of herpesvirus infections, especially cytomegalovirus in allogeneic stem-cell and solid organ transplant recipients, as well as in patients with inflammatory diseases and critically ill patients with no canonical immunosuppression and recently SARS-CoV-2.
He has authored or co-authored over 350 publications in intermediate-highly- ranked journals. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Virology, member of the Editorial Board of Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, member of the ECIL group of the European Bone Marrow Transplantation Society (EBMT) and regular reviewer for more than 30 journals.
David Navarro graduated from Medical School at the University of Valencia (Spain) in 1985 and achieved his Doctor of Medicine degree in Microbiology and Immunology in the University of Valencia, Spain in 1989. He completed a postdoctoral research associate job (1989-1991) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is currently Full Professor of Microbiology in School of Medicine of Valencia and Head of the Microbiology Service at the Clinic University Hospital, Valencia. His research activity mainly concerns diagnostic, clinical, biological and pathogenesis aspects of herpesvirus infections, especially cytomegalovirus in allogeneic stem-cell and solid organ transplant recipients, as well as in patients with inflammatory diseases and critically ill patients with no canonical immunosuppression and recently SARS-CoV-2.
He has authored or co-authored over 350 publications in intermediate-highly- ranked journals. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Virology, member of the Editorial Board of Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, member of the ECIL group of the European Bone Marrow Transplantation Society (EBMT) and regular reviewer for more than 30 journals.
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José Miguel Rubio (Madrid) Doctor en Biología por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1992). Desde 1998 es miembro del Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Científico Titular, Responsable de la Unidad de Malaria y Parasitosis Emergentes del Centro Nacional de Microbiología. Forma parte del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC/ISCIII). Ha publicado más de 100 artículos en revistas indexadas internacionales, 10 capítulos de libros y ha sido coeditor de dos libros dentro del área de malaria, medicina tropical y enfermedades olvidadas
José Miguel Rubio (Madrid) Doctor en Biología por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1992). Desde 1998 es miembro del Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Científico Titular, Responsable de la Unidad de Malaria y Parasitosis Emergentes del Centro Nacional de Microbiología. Forma parte del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC/ISCIII). Ha publicado más de 100 artículos en revistas indexadas internacionales, 10 capítulos de libros y ha sido coeditor de dos libros dentro del área de malaria, medicina tropical y enfermedades olvidadas
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