Dr Juan Santiago Salas-Benito is a physician. He graduated from Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico in 1991 and obtained a Ph.D. from Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados of Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, in 1998. He was a postgraduate researcher at Columbia University, New York, USA, from 1999 to 2000, and he is currently a professor in Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatía of Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican Society of Virology and the Nacional Research System in Mexico. His previous work has been focused on the identification and characterization of the dengue virus receptor in mosquito cells, and his work is currently focused on the study of the factors involved in the establishment and maintenance of persistent dengue viral infection in mosquito cells.