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Director of the Rheumatology Service. Hospital Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain.

Professor in Medicine. University of Oviedo, Spain.

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.

Director of the Rheumatology Service. Hospital Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain.

Long COVID-19 director. Member of the Infectious Diseases Unit. She is responsible for a monographic consultation on congenital immunodeficiencies and her research is part of the lines of the Infectious Diseases Unit. She is an associate professor of Medicine at the UAB and tutor for internships and seminars in Physiopathology and Clinical Semiology and Biological Basis of Pathology for the UAB Medicine Degree at the Can Ruti Campus.