Juan Ferré, Prof. of Genetics and Head of the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the University of Valencia (UV), Spain. He graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1978 and received his PhD in chemistry from the UV in 1984, with the work “Study of the pteridines and quinolines from Drosophila melanogaster eyes”, which was carried out in both the Dep. of Genetics of the UV and the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee, USA). He completed his postdoctoral studies in the Dep. of Reproductive Genetics of the Magee Women’s Hospital (Pennsylvania, USA), studying inborn errors of pterin metabolism. He served as the Head of the Dep. of Genetics of the UV for 7 years. Since 1989, he has had sabbatical leaves at the University of Hawaii and the Univ. of Tenessee, as well as at Plant Genetic Systems (Belgium). He has published 183 articles and 16 book chapters, and has an h-index of 52. He started his scientific career studying the biochemical genetics of eye pigments in insects. His more recent interests are the bases of insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins, used to control insect pests. He has been a member of the International Society of Pteridinology (1988–1996) and of the editorial board of the journal Pteridines (1993-2003). Currently, he is a member of the International Society for Invertebrate Pathology and the Spanish Society of Applied Entomology. In 2016, he received the “Award Research and Development” in the frame of the XXI edition of the UV-Society Awards.