A graduate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he worked in virus diagnostics and molecular epidemiology at the Argentinian National Institute of Infectious Diseases prior to joining the CII as a postdoctoral fellow in 2002. Dr. Palacios' research is focused on microbial diagnostics and discovery. He has contributed to the development of MassTag PCR as a tool for syndromic surveilance and virus diagnostics, the invention of the first panmicrobial microarray; the use of deep sequencing in pathogen discovery and the discovery of more than 50 viruses including rhinovirus C, Dandenong virus, and LuJo virus.