Dr Roger Paredes

Roger Paredes is a HIV Physician at Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol and Head of the Microbial Genomics Group at the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain. Roger Paredes obtained an MD and a PhD degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He specialized in HIV resistance at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. His team has demonstrated the clinical utility of HIV-1 deep sequencing in both high- and low- and middle-income countries.

Roger Paredes is a member of the WHO HIVResNet Steering Group and the International Antiviral Society–USA, which annually produces a list of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations used worldwide. He is co-author of the Rega algorithm for HIV resistance interpretation and virologist for the EuroSIDA European cohort. His group is leading pioneering research into the role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of HIV infection and chronic inflammation. They were the first to describe a link between sexual practices and the faecal microbiome composition.

Roger Paredes combines his research work at irsiCaixa with a senior medical appointment at the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona, Catalonia, Spain. He co-chairs HIVResNet Working Group 3 on Research and Innovation.