Dr. José Alejandro Di Conza is a biochemist at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) and has a Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires (Microbiology). He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Microbiology (FFyB–UBA), an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and he has served as the Director and Editor of the Argentine Journal of Microbiology. He has over 25 years of experience in healthcare research. He has studied resistance to antibiotics used in clinical practice for the treatment of infectious diseases. His research has focused on unravelling the molecular mechanisms of resistance, the characterization of resistance gene dissemination platforms, and the epidemiological study of infections caused by resistant bacteria, covering human clinical samples, pet samples, food animals, and environmental samples. His group is also currently developing a rapid and easy method to detect β-lactamases using a MALDI-TOF device.