Juan Ferré, Prof. of Genetics and Head of the Inst. of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BIOTECMED) at the University of Valencia (UV), Spain. I graduated in Chemistry in 1978 and received my PhD in Chemistry by the UV in 1984, with the work “Study of the pteridines and quinolines from Drosophila melanogaster eyes”, which was carried out in both the Dep. of Genetics of the UV and the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN, USA). I did my postdoc in the Dep. of Reproductive Genetics of the Magee Womens Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) studying inborn errors of pterin metabolism. I served as Head of the Dep. of Genetics of the UV for 7 years. Since 1989, I had sabbatical leaves at the University of Hawaii and the Univ. of Tenessee (USA), and at Plant Genetic Systems (Belgium). I published 183 articles and 16 book chapters, and have an h-index of 52. I started my scientific career studying the biochemical genetics of eye-pigments in insects. More recent interests are the biochemical and genetic bases of insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins, used to control insect pests. I’ve been a member of the International Society of Pteridinology (1988-1996) and of the editorial board of the journal Pteridines (1993-2003). Currently, I’m a member of the International Society for Invertebrate Pathology and the Spanish Society of Applied Entomology. In 2016 I received the “Award Research and Development” in the frame of the XXI Edition of Awards UV-Society.