Edgar M. Carvalho, M.D., Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Medicine at the Federal University of Bahia, Senior Investigator of the Gonçalo Moniz Institute-Fiocruz-Bahia, Brazil, and an Associate Researcher at the Immunology Service at the University Hospital Professor Edgard Santos. His research has been predominantly in the immunopathogenesis of leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis, and HTLV-1 infection, and he has authored over 400 scientific articles. Dr. Carvalho is a Program Director of one of the Tropical Medicine Research Centers, supported by the NIH, and is a director of the program “National Institute of Technology and Science in Tropical Diseases,” supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. Dr. Carvalho has been an adjunct Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University since 1998 and an adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa since 2008. Dr. Carvalho was President of the Brazilian Society of Immunology. In recognition of his contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases, Dr. Carvalho received Brazil’s Sendas Award in 1993. In 2002, Dr. Carvalho was elected for the Brazilian Academy of Science, and, in 2005, Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva admitted Dr. Carvalho to the Brazilian Class of Scientific Merit.