Dr. Antonio J. Ruiz Alcaraz is a professor of Immunology at the University of Mucia (UMU) and principal investigator (PI) at the Innate Immunity Research Group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Murcia (IMIB). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry (2000) and a PhD from the University of Murcia (2003). After completing his doctoral thesis in the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of the UMU, he was hired as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Calum Sutherland (Division of Pathology and Neuroscience at Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, United Kingdom) to study the cellular and molecular alterations that lead to the development of Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes. In this regard, Dr. Antonio J. Ruiz Alcaraz has recently been awarded a grant from the Robles Chillida foundation for the development of a research project entitled “Effects of an exclusion diet on clinical, inflammatory and gut microbiota composition patterns in adult patients with Crohn's disease”. Dr. Antonio J. Ruiz Alcaraz (h-index= 20; > 1000 citations) is the author of more than 70 scientific publications in international scientific journals, many of them of remarkable relevance since they are included in Q1 (35) and D1 (9) of their category, including highly prestigious journals in the areas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition.