Recent Advances in Parasitomics: Implications for Parasite and Vector Research

Juan David Ramírez González, PhD, is Full Professor at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. As head and founder of the Research Center of Microbiology and Biotechnology, he created an excellence research hub for Biology and Medicine students focused on Molecular Diagnostics, Molecular Epidemiology and Comparative Genomics of parasitic and viral diseases. Moreover, Juan David is the Assistant Director of the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at the Mount Sinai Health System and Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-based Medicine from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
The current research interest of Professor Ramírez-González is to develop and validate novel tools for the detection and real time surveillance of endemic and emerging pathogens using cutting-edge diagnostic platforms (i.e., Next Generation Sequencing). His research plan as independent researcher is evidenced in more than 280 peer-reviewed manuscripts in international journals with an h-index of 50. Juan David has dedicated the last 15 years of his career tracking the dispersal and evolution of Trypanosoma cruzi, intestinal parasites (Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Blastocystis), Leishmania, Dengue virus, and recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic the SARS-CoV-2 and Monkeypox virus (MPXV).