Antoni Soriano-Arandes

ASA is currently working as a consultant on pediatric tropical infectious diseases and tuberculosis at the Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit of the University Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona, Spain). He obtained his PhD degree for the University of Barcelona last January 2017 with the thesis about mother-to-child HIV transmission and the influence of the migrant factor in the HIV epidemiology in Catalonia over a period of 15 years (2000-2014). He participates as a professor of the PROSICS course on Tropical Diseases coordinated by the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute. He’s the coordinator for the Spanish ZIKV network database (ZIKARed) to register all the ZIKV-infected pregnant women and children born to ZIKV-infected mothers in the main referral hospitals in Spain. In 2016, he was awarded by the SEPAR society with 18,000€ as PI for a clinical study about VFRs children and TB infection. Moreover, he’s the PI and workpackage leader on pediatric clinical studies for a EU-Horizon2020-funded ZIKV project (Zikaction), and member of different scientific societies and networks including ptbnet, PENTA, COHERE, pTBRed, SEPAR, TropNet, ERS, The Union, ESPID, and NENEXP. He has authored nearly 40 papers in high-ranking journals with 187 total citations, H-Index of 6, and a RG-score 28.87 since 2012. External funding since 2016 mounts to 325,246 €.