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Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn

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Prof. Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn is full Professor and Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance Unit (ARU) at the Complutense University in Madrid, a multidisciplinary laboratory he founded in 2005 and has brought One Health to the forefront of research on antimicrobial resistance.

In 2023 he was elected  Dr honoris causa in Ghana for his continuous support of local Public Health, and he is the Chair of One Health in the Alliance Una Europa. His research focuses on the flux of antimicrobial resistance genes and bacteria between humans, animals and the environment. He gained his DVM in 1996 studying in Spain and Germany and his european PhD in 2001. After his Postdoc at the Pasteur Institute in Paris he received a Ramon y Cajal tenure-track contract from the Spanish Ministry of Science to return to Spain. In 2011 he was awarded the National Microbiology Award, from the Spanish Society for Microbiology, the National Antimicrobial Resistance Research Award for his research on mcr-1 and waste-water from the Ministry of Health in 2018, and in 2020 the Award for antimicrobial resistance alternatives from the Veterinary Royal Academy. In 2011 he was elected the first non-clinical member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the JPI AMR, co-authoring the first two Strategic Research Agendas.

He is the former President of the Molecular Microbiology Group of the Spanish Society for Microbiology and Head of Department. Gonzalez-Zorn has lead projects with the US, Latin America, Africa and Asia on molecular microbiology and the ecology of antimicrobial resistance, and has collaborated with Research Institutions world-wide. Gonzalez-Zorn works on the National Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance, and has advised Governments world-wide in the implementation of the One Health approach in their Action Plans.