Scientific team

The following personnel are currently working or have worked in the past with us:



Pere-Joan Cardona i Iglesias
Head of the Unit.
MD, Microbiologist, PhD in Medicine.
Email: pj.cardona@ gmail.com
Telf. +34 93 497 86 86
Period: 1997 up to now

Dr. Pere-Joan Cardona is a Biomedical researcher of the Germans Trias i Pujol Biomedical Research Foundation attached to the Spanish Health Department (Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias –FIS-). He is also Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He was qualified as MD at the UAB in 1992, completed his internal ship in Clinical Microbiology at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in 1997.

Dr. Cardona is a member of ASM, IUATLD, SEPAR (Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery), SEIMC (Spanish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)and SECAL (Spanish Society of Laboratory Animal Sciences). He was qualified as Level D researcher by the FELASA in 2006. He obtained a PhD in 1999. His research was focused on infection models in laboratory animals and studies of TB diagnosis to search for serological methods of diagnosis.

He has been attached as Collaborator and Main Researcher in different FIS, SEPAR, FEPAR, SEIMC, FEDER and MEC. Nowadays he also collaborates in big European (TBVAC) and world (Grand Challenge #12) research linked to the study of new prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against M. tuberculosis infection. He has published 32 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.





Isabel Amat i Riera
Degree in Chemistry.
Email: isaamat@ yahoo.es
Telf. +34 93 497 86 81
Period: 2000-2005





Neus Cáceres i Casademunt
Degree in Biology. PhD student.
Email: neus_ruti@ yahoo.es
Telf. +34 93 497 86 81
Period: 2005 up to now





Jorge Díaz Pedroza
Superior Sanitary Technician
Email: jdp31@ jorgedp.jazztel.es
Telf. +34 93 497 33 79
Period: 1998 up to now





Olga Gil Sánchez
Degree in Biology. PhD student.
Email: ogilsanchez@ gmail.com
Telf. +34 93 497 86 81
Period: 2004 up to now





Sergi Gordillo Muñoz
PhD in Biology
Email: sgordillo@ wanadoo.es
Period: 1999-2003





Evelyn Guirado Cáceres
Degree in Biology. PhD student.
Email: evelyn.ute@ gmail.com
Telf. +34 93 497 86 81
Period: 2003 up to now





Dani Rivas García
Superior Sanitary Technician
Email: danyr48@ yahoo.es
Telf. +34 93 497 33 79
Period: 2005 up to now





Cristina Vilaplana i Massaguer
MD, Microbiologist. PhD student.
Email: cvilaplana@ gmail.com
Telf. +34 93 497 86 81
Period: 2005 up to now