Diego Alejandro Alvarez currently works at Genomics of Emerging Diseases at the Instituto Nacional de Salud. Experience in studies that involve sequencing, diagnosis, isolation and antibody response against arboviruses (Dengue and Zika) and SARS-CoV-2, as well as the regulation of coding and non-coding genes. Establishment of the national program for the genomic characterization of SARS-COV-2 in Colombia.