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Juan Luis Rodríguez Tudela, MD, PhD was born in Madrid in 1958. He gained his MD from Complutense University of Madrid. He is a Specialist in Clinical Microbiology and studied for his PhD at the Autonomous University de Madrid. He is co-founder of the only NGO devoted to fight against Fungal Disease “The Global Action for Fungal Infections”.
Juan Luis was the founder of the medical Mycology Reference Laboratory of Spain at the National Centre for Microbiology of Instituto de Salud Carlos III. He served as Director of the National Centre for Microbiology at Instituto de Salud Carlos III from 2000 to 2003. His last position at National Centre for Microbiology of Instituto de Salud Carlos III was as Director of the Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Parasitology. He was appointed as honorary professor of the Centre for Respiratory & Allergy. Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. University of Manchester. UK., between 2014-2017. He has run a variety of research projects and scientific activities focused on fungal infections afflicting humans, early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections, standardization of antifungal susceptibility testing, resistance mechanisms, and taxonomy of fungal species.
Juan Luis has published 248 original articles with 20,920 citations. His current Hirsch index is 80, and Global i10 index 220.
Juan Luis has served as member of several international associations, ex-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Antifungal Subcommittee of Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of the European Committee of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AFST-EUCAST) and advisor of the PAHO on the Antifungal Resistance Surveillance Network in Latin-America, advisor of the WHO for the Fungal Pathogen Priority List as well as member of the AMR expert group. He is also advisor of the Fundación Gadea Ciencia. He has run several workshops focused on diagnosis and resistance detection of fungi in different countries of American continent as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, and Mexico.
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