Jordi Vila

Dr. Vila is the Head of the Clinical Microbiology Department of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, ​​Professor of the School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona and Research Professor at the Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal) of Barcelona, Spain. In addition, he leads the Initiative on Antibiotic Resistance of the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal). His main field of research is the development of new antibiotics against multi-drug resistant bacteria and molecular tools for the rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases. Dr. Vila was the program director of the Congress of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) from 2009 to 2014 and member of the ICAAC Scientific Committee for 4 years. He was president of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC) (2019-2021). He has published 483 articles in peer-reviewed journals (H-Index of 88 and 31.046 citations). He has been the principal investigator of 11 competitive European projects in the FP7, H2020, EIT-Health and IMI calls. In addition to 12 national projects. He has three patented molecules.