Dr. Carlos Medicis Morel is the director of the Centre for Technological Development in Health (CDTS) and a senior researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Health of Brazil. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). From 1998 to 2004, he served as the Director of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He has actively created the following programs and organizations of worldwide recognition to promote research into and the development of treatments for neglected diseases: Medicines for Malaria Venture, Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics. His research interests include metagenomics, molecular epidemiology, the prevention and control of infections, next-generation sequencing (NGS), biotechnology and products, molecular parasitology and bioinformatics, and the Global Virome Project.