Short biography
Javier Martinez-Picado is ICREA Research Professor at the IrsiCaixa Immunopathology Research Institute in Barcelona. He is also an associate professor at the University of Vic, and an elected member of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Barcelona, where he also lectured as an associate professor. In 1996, he joined Massachusetts General Hospital as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he focused on HIV/AIDS research. In 2000 he obtained the position of biomedical researcher at the Spanish Health Department appointed to the Hospital Germans Trias de Badalona. In 2006 he obtained his current ICREA position. Dr. Martinez-Picado serves on different government, academic and industry advisory boards. He has given numerous invited lectures in multiple countries, and has published more than 240 articles on virology and immunology topics, mainly related to the pathogenesis of HIV, in international journals
