Javier Carrión received his PhD with an extraordinary prize at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2007 (Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”) with a thesis on the establishment of an experimental model of leishmaniosis to evaluate immunization strategies with Leishmania histones against cutaneous and visceral leishmaniosis. He is an expert in mouse and hamster animal experimental models, and since 1998, he has been researching neglected zoonoses (leishmaniosis, Chagas disease, and giardiaosis). He is a Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in the Department of Animal
Health. He is a researcher of the ICPVet group and belongs to the Spanish Society of Immunology and the Spanish Society of Parasitology. Keywords: immunology; vaccines and therapies; leishmaniosis; Chagas disease.
