Prof. Dr. José Alcami is a research professor and head of the AIDS Immunopathogenesis Unit at the National Centre of Microbiology. He is the coordinator of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (RIS), which brings together the clinical, epidemiological, and basic research efforts of 40 different Spanish hospitals and research units. He is the Director of the Master's in Infectious Diseases chaired by the University of Alcalá de Henares and Instituto Carlos III). Dr. Alcami is a specialist in internal medicine and received his Ph.D. in virology from the University of Madrid. He was an associate researcher at the Pasteur Institute for four years, where he began to study the molecular mechanisms involved in HIV reactivation. He is an expert in HIV pathogenesis, in particular in the mechanisms involved in HIV latency and viral entry. In this field, his laboratory has developed new strategies to target HIV reservoirs in order to allow a functional cure. To this aim, the laboratory has developed a platform for the screening and characterization of new antiretroviral drugs and neutralizing antibodies and is a reference group in the development and testing of HIV vaccines. He has participated in the European Networks of HIV Vaccines (EUROPRISE, EAVI2020) and microbicides (CHAARM), leading the AIM-HIV consortium for microbicide development.