Juan-Manuel Anaya is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Autoimmune Diseases Research (CREA) at the Universidad del Rosario, in Bogotá, Colombia. Prof Anaya received his M.D. degree from the Medical Faculty of Universidad del Rosario, in Bogota, Colombia. He developed his Residency in Rheumatology at the University of Paris V, France, and obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Immunology at the Institute Pasteur of Paris. He served as “Chef de Clinique” at the Gui de Chaulliac Hospital, University of Montpellier, France. At the Clinical Immunology Division, Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX, USA, he performed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biology from the University of Antioquia, Colombia. Prof Anaya’s research is focused on the search and discovery of common mechanisms of autoimmune diseases (that is, the autoimmune tautology). He has coauthored more than 300 scientific papers and coedited 15 books on immunology and autoimmunity. Prof Anaya is the founder and coordinator of the Chair of Translational Medicine at the School of Medicine of the Universidad del Rosario. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.