María Guadalupe Guzmán Tirado

Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Full Professor, Senior Researcher. Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). Director of the Reference Center for Research and Diagnosis of IPK

She serves as Head of the Department of Virology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kourí". Dr. María Guadalupe Guzmán is a recognized figure in the field of medical virology and has dedicated herself fundamentally to the study of dengue, a viral infectious disease acquired through a vector: the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also transmits yellow fever. Her research on the virus has had wide-ranging global repercussions that cannot be ignored by those who closely follow the development of world science. In 2005, the journal Science, on the occasion of its 125th anniversary, decided to publicize a series of world-class scientists and Cuba had the honor of having Dr. Guzmán Tirado among them.

Recognized as a leading expert in dengue research, Dr. Guzmán is also director of the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for dengue and its control and was president of the Network of Arbovirus Diagnostic Laboratories of the Americas (RELDA) from 2010 to 2018. Currently, she is president of the Cuban Society of Microbiology and Parasitology, heads the IPK Scientific Council which sets the research priorities of the Institute, and is a distinguished professor and author. In 2016, she published Dengue (Medical Sciences Publishing House, Havana), the most comprehensive collection of original Cuban research available on the subject.

Professional Career
She is a member of the:

Organization of Women Scientists of the Third World (TWOWS);
Cuban Society of Microbiology and Parasitology;
American Society of Tropical Medicine. Work specialty: Virology and;
MINSAP Expert Group for the management of outbreaks, epidemics and emerging diseases;
TDR/WHO Expert Group for Dengue;
Advisory Committee on Vaccines for Dengue and YFB of the World Health Organization (WHO);
Dengue Working Group of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);
Scientific-Technical Advisory Committee of TDR/WHO.