Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez

I am a clinical microbiologist and I work in the Microbiology Department at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. I am also associate professor in the Department of Genetics and Microbiology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and head of the Microbiology Research Group at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute.

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Microbiology

Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca

Biologist
Microbiology

Cross-departmental services

Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Microbiology

Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca

Biologist
Microbiology

Cross-departmental services

My professional work is divided into three fundamental lines which are assistance, teaching and research.

In terms of assistance, I have been working as a clinical microbiologist in the Microbiology Service since 2010 where I am currently leading the areas of bacterial identification and antibiograms.

Regarding the teaching aspect, I am a professor of the Degree of Medicine and the Degree of Microbiology at the Vall d'Hebron Campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Likewise, I participate as a teacher in different master's degrees related to the field of microbiology and infectious diseases.

Regarding the research work, I am the head of the Microbiology Research Group at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute. My research career has focused mainly on the study of the mechanisms of action and resistance to antimicrobials, on the molecular characterization of multidrug resistant bacterial populations and on the study of the mechanisms of bacterial pathogenicity.

Recently I have also started to work in new fields including the search for new therapeutic strategies against multidrug-resistant bacteria, the study of the populations and evolution of Bordetella pertussis and Neisseria meningitidis and the study of molecular mechanisms involved in sepsis, as well as in the development and validation of new diagnostic tools for infectious diseases.

Projects

Secuenciación d enueva generación para el estudio de la dinámica poblacional, adaptación e identificación de nuevos antígenos vacunales de B. Pertussis y B holmesii. Estudio PERT-ESP-VAC.

IP: Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez
Collaborators: M Teresa Martin Gomez, Gema Codina Grau, Carlos Rodrigo Gonzalo de Liria, Alba Mir Cros, Sonia Maria Uriona Tuma, Sonia Maria Uriona Tuma
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 111320
Reference: PI18/00703
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 30/06/2023

Inhibició dels sistemes d¿estabilitat plasmídics com a eina de lluita front a bacteris multirresistents

IP: Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez
Collaborators: Alba Mir Cros, Laia Perez Lasarte
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 46200
Reference: 2018 FI_B 00855
Duration: 01/03/2018 - 31/03/2021

Incorporació Dr. Benito Almirante a la RETICS en malalties infeccioses RED ESPAÑOLA DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN PATOLOGÍAS INFECCIOSAS

IP: -
Collaborators: María Nieves Larrosa Escartin, Oscar Len Abad, Gema Codina Grau, Mª Carmen Ferrer Barberà, Andres Antón Pagarolas, Rosa María Bartolomé Comas, Nuria Fernández Hidalgo, Joan Gavaldà Santapau, Juliana Esperalba Esquerra, Ma Dolores Rodríguez Pardo, Alba Mir Cros, Julia Sellares Nadal, Tomàs Pumarola Suñé, Carles Pigrau Serrallach, Isabel Ruiz Camps, Mayli Lung Suarez, Mª Teresa Tórtola Fernández, Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez, Pablo Salvador Corona Pérez-Cardona, Ibai Los Arcos Bertiz
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 401918
Reference: RD16/0016/0003
Duration: 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2022

Inhibición de los sistemas de estabilidad plasmídica como herramienta de lucha frente a bacterias multirresistentes

IP: Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez
Collaborators: María Nieves Larrosa Escartin, Rosa María Bartolomé Comas, Albert Moreno Mingorance
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 116765
Reference: PI15/00604
Duration: 01/01/2016 - 30/11/2020