Enric Vidal, DVM, PhD (Barcelona 1977), finished his veterinary science studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2000 and read his doctoral thesis in the same faculty on the subject of BSE central nervous system pathogenesis in 2006. Since 2002, he has been in charge of the PRIOCAT laboratory in IRTA-CReSA (Animal Health Research Centre), which is the animal prion disease reference laboratory of Catalonia. PRIOCAT performs the screening and confirmatory diagnosis of animal TSEs in Catalonia’s ruminant livestock and has also developed a government-financed research line on TSE neuropathology based on the study of field cases and murine transgenic models. Since 2007, he has been managing the slaughterhouse support service (SESC) commissioned by the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya (www.cresa.cat/blogs/sesc). It is a support service to help meat inspectors obtain a final diagnosis based on slaughterhouse findings. He also participates in research on and the pathological diagnosis of the tuberculosis surveillance and eradication program.