His laboratory has been working on the vaccine development for neglected and emerging infectious diseases, such as Chagas disease, Dengue, Malaria (P. vivax), Zika and Chikungunya. For the last 3 cited diseases, vaccine formulations developed by his group have already entered in the clinical stage testing. Also, he contributed to the creation of the NDM-Mexico initiative to support collaborative work between research groups in Oxford with Mexican scientists.