Prof. Federico Martinón-Torres

Federico Martinón-Torres (@fedemartinon) is a pediatrician and clinical researcher, currently the coordinator and head of Pediatrics and Director of Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases (Best ID Unit of Spain 2018, 2019, and 2020) at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (Spain), and Associate Professor in Pediatrics (University of Santiago). He currently serves the European Technical Advisory Group of Experts (ETAGE) of WHO Europe and coordinates the WHO collaborating center for Vaccine Safety of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He graduated from the University of Santiago and completed his medical training at the Hope Children’s and at the Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago, before obtaining a Ph.D. on the application of heliox in infants with bronchiolitis (national Ph.D. prize). He has received 25+ prizes and awards for academic achievements, including Best National Graduate in Medicine and Surgery (1995) and Best National Resident of all sub-specialties (2000). He has published over 300 articles with a cumulative impact factor > 2000 (JCR2020), 7 books, and 130 book chapters. His main research interests are vaccines, infectious diseases, bronchiolitis, meningococcal disease, pneumococcal disease, and heliox. He has managed or directed as PI more than 40 competitive research projects, 100 phase 1 to 3 vaccine clinical trials, and 15 collaborative grants related to infectious diseases and genomics, including 2 FP7, 4 H2020, and 3 IMI2.