As head of the Acinetobacter baumannii Research Group (Laboratory of Antibiotics of Molecular Bacteriology), I have been developing research projects and national and international academic activities under the topic of “Acinetobacter baumannii: study of the mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics and persistence in the nosocomial environment”. Our main areas of research are the following: a) Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant clinical isolates producing carbapenemases; b) Plasmids and other mobile elements as genetic support and transfer of resistance to antibiotics; and c) Behaviour and survival of multidrug-resistant isolates in the environment. International collaborations: Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt; Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Germany; Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia; Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt; Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital & “Antibiotics Unit” of the Central Public Health Laboratory, United Kingdom