Filippo de Nicolellis graduated at Rome University “La Sapienza” in 1986, where he specialized in Infectious Diseases in 1990. From 1995 to 2000, he worked as a Family Doctor in Doberdò del Lago/Doberdob (Gorizia) and since 2000 in Fiumicello, Udine, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the north-east of Italy. Since 2000, he has also been the President of the medical association “Croce Medica”, which deals with the organization of Health Services and Permanent Training and particularly with Primary Health Care and Emergency.

Virology

Alfredo Berzal-Herranz received his PhD in Molecular Biology from the Autónoma University of Madrid (1990). After a short stay in the Department of Microbiology, at the Uppsala University (Sweden), he moved to the Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont (USA), as Postdoctoral Researcher. In 1993 he returned to Granada, Spain, joining the Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra” (IPBLN) belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he established his own research group and Chair the Department of Molecular Biology. Since April 1997 to November 2005, he was the Deputy Director of the IPBLN-CSIC and Director since November 2005 to March 2014. He has authored around 90 research articles and book chapters and edited two special research issues. He serves or has served as Editorial Board Member of more than 15 research journals. His group is currently interested in understanding the structure/function relationship of viral RNA genomes. Pursuing the identification of the molecular mechanisms used by the RNA viruses to store all necessary genetic information and studying the potential use of genomic structural RNA domains as potential antiviral targets. Further, his group is interested in the design and characterization of antiviral RNA molecules.

Structure-function relationship of viral genomic RNA domains

Haitham Mohamed M. Mahmoud Amer is Professor of Virology from October 2016 to Present in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University, Egypt. He is also Associate Professor of Virology from December 2014 to Present in College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He was Assistant Professor of Virology during October 2011 to September 2016 in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University, Egypt. He was Assistant Professor of Virology from June 2009 to December 2014 in College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He was Lecturer of Virology from June 2006 to May 2009 in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University, Egypt. He was Assistant Lecturer of Virology from November 2001 to June 2006 in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University, Egypt. He was Instructor of Virology from May 1998 to November 2001 in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Cairo University, Egypt

Studying the antiviral activity of different medicinal plants

Vsevolod Zinserling is pathologist working in the field of infectology in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. His research is devoted to viral, bacterial, fungal and mycoplasma lesions of brain, lung, liver, intestine, placenta on autopsy, clinical and experimental material. Investigations of pathomorphology of Influenza, HIV and its complications, infections due to herpes viruses, viral hepatitis, mixed infections of different localisation are of special interest. Prof. V.A. Zinserling is collaborating at Saint-Petersburg University, Center of infectious pathology at S.P. Botkin hospital for infectious diseases and department of pathomorphology in the Institute of Experimental medicine at National Medical Research Center named after V.A. Almazov. He is active member of European Society of Pathology (working groups infectious diseases, autopsy pathology and history of pathology). Author of more than 400 publications.

Infectious Diseases