Jordi Vila

Dr. Vila is the Head of the Department of Clinical Microbiology of the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Full Professor of the School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, and Research Professor in the Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) of Barcelona, Spain. In this last institution, he is leading the initiative on “Antimicrobial Resistance”. His main fields of interest are the research on the molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance as well as development of new drugs against MDR bacteria and molecular tools for rapid diagnosis of infectious disease. Dr. Vila was the Programme Director of the Congress of ESCMID from 2009 to 2014, and member of the ICAAC from 2007 to 2010. He has received several awards, the last one being “Award of the National Plan against Antibiotic Resistance (PRAN) 2018 for the Micro-combat card game, presented by the Barcelona Global Health Institute Foundation (ISGlobal) in the category of better communication and public awareness initiative on the antibiotic resistance”. He is currently the president of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC). He has published 425 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has patented two molecules.