Fernando Chirdo is Professor of Immunology at the National University of La Plata and Principal Researcher of the National Council Research (CONICET) in Argentina. He has investigated basic aspects of celiac disease pathogenesis and biochemistry of prolamins such as development of analytical platforms to quantify gluten proteins in food, cloning, and analysis of expression of TG2, expression of IFABP, and optimization of serological tests. More recent work has focused on mechanisms of inflammation, stress and cell death, and regulatory axis in small intestine using clinical samples and animal models. Since 2002, he has been an Executive Member of the European Working Group on Prolamin Analysis and Toxicity. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Membership Committee of the Society of Mucosal Immunology. In 2016, together with other Latin American scientists, he created the Latin American Mucosal Immunology Group (LAMIG). Since then, he has been a Board Member of LAMIG. In 2019, he was elected as Councilor of the Board of Society of Mucosal Immunology.