Aging en HIV 2018

Dr. Clotet received his MD (1976) and his PhD (1981), with a thesis on autoimmune diseases, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). That same year, his internship as an Internal Medicine specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona coincided with the first AIDS case reported in Spain. This case was the catalyst for a career dedicated to this serious disease, first as head of the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (1987-2015) and then as founder and president of the Fight against AIDS Foundation (1992), which is now named as Fight Infections Foundation.

Dr. Clotet soon saw the need to go a step beyond patient care to conduct research aimed at eradicating AIDS. In 1995, with the support of “la Caixa” and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he founded the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, which he still heads.  In addition, Dr. Clotet is also the clinical director of Infectious Diseases at the Metropolitana Nord area of the Catalan Institute of Health, scientific advisor to two IrsiCaixa spin-offs: Aelix Therapeutics SL and AlbaJuna Therapeutics SL and director of the Chair of AIDS and Related Diseases at the Universitat de Vic (UVic).

He has published more than 1000 papers in high impact international journals and his contributions to research have been recognized with the Josep Trueta medal to Sanitary Merit and the ‘Premi Nacional de Recerca’, among other awards.

Eugènia Negredo earned her medical degree and PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Sant Pau Hospital.

Since 1999, she has led the HIV Section at Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital (HGTiP) and coordinates a research group focused on HIV-related complications and associated chronic inflammation, with a special emphasis on aging.

She contributes to national and international clinical guidelines on comorbidities and aging (GESIDA, PNS, EACS), and since 2014 has been a professor and coordinator of the Medical degree at UVIC-UCC.

Since 2016, she has co-directed the international workshop “Comprehensive Management of Aging and HIV”, held annually in Barcelona and Buenos Aires.

Pedro Cahn has been Scientific Director of Fundación Huésped since 1989 and former President of the International AIDS Society (IAS) for the period 2006-2008. Former Head and current Consultant of the Infectology Division of the Juan A. Fernández Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also Full Professor of the Department of Medicine, Infectology Orientation, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Cahn has been involved in international HIV/AIDS conferences and working groups since 1989, including the 1st Conference on Pathogenesis and Treatment of IAS in Argentina and the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico, which he chaired. Likewise, on repeated occasions, he has acted as an advisor to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS. He is an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and received the honorable mention “Senator Domingo F. Sarmiento” by the Senate of the Nation (2014).