Spyros Pournaras is a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, University General Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece. He completed his Ph.D. studies in medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently, he serves as Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, NKUA; Chair of the Clinical Laboratories Division, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, NKUA; Chair of the Infection Control Committee, “ATTIKON” University Hospital, NKUA; Chair of the Infection Committee, 2nd Health District Administration of Greece.
Emanuele Durante-Mangoni is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Campania ‘L. Vanvitelli’ and Director of the Infectious and Transplant Medicine Unit at the V. Monaldi Teaching Hospital, Naples, Italy. The head of a research laboratory, with know-how in molecular biology and protein assays, he was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and at the Imperial College Medical School in London. Emanuele has authored over 200 full papers in peer-reviewed international journals with an impact factor, with a Hirsch index of 44, and over 6500 citations. His main areas of scientific interest include infective endocarditis, post-transplant and multi-drug-resistant infections, and viral hepatitis. A Scientific Board Member of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2016- ) and Editorial Board Member of the European Journal of Internal Medicine (2022- ) and the Journal of Clinical Medicine (2021- ), Emanuele is the acting Scientific Secretary of the International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases. He is an investigator in several international and national studies funded by the US NIH, the Italian Medicines Agency, the EU Commission, and the Italian Ministries of Health and Research.
Raffaele Zarrilli is a full Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. He mainly focuses on microbiology, Acinetobacter baumannii, molecular epidemiology, drug resistance, and genotyping. His microbiology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as host response to microbial infection, analysis of bacterial virulence factors, and bioinformatics. His research integrates issues of genotyping, antimicrobial resistance, and virulence in his study of Acinetobacter baumannii.
