Fernando Baquero

Ramón y Cajal Universty Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Prof. Fernando Baquero currently serves as a Research Professor at the Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS) in Madrid, Spain, and was the former Head of the Department of Microbiology at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital. He earned his MD from the Complutense University and PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Fernando Baquero was trained in clinical microbiology at the National Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Madrid, at Max von Pettenkofer Hygiene Institute in Munich (1970), the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1973–1974), and later in population, evolutionary biology, and mathematical modeling at the Department of Biology at Emory University, Atlanta (1995). He is an elected member of the American and European Academies of Microbiology (AAM and EAM). He received the Descartes Award from the EU, the Lwoff Award from FEMS, the Garrod Award from BSAC, and the ARIMA Award from IUMS. He received the Clarivate Award 2024 for Most Quoted World Scientist in Microbiology. His research focuses on antibiotic resistance mechanisms and their clinical and ecological implications, bacterial population dynamics and evolutionary adaptations, the persistence of pathogens in biofilms and host environments, as well as horizontal gene transfer and the dissemination of resistance genes. He has published 560 peer-reviewed articles referenced in PubMed in leading journals (Science, Nature Reviews Microbiology, PNAS, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Microbiome) and edited key books on microbial evolution published in the American Society of Microbiology Press.

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