Prof. Stefano Rusconi is an associate professor in infectious diseases at the DIBIC Luigi Sacco, University of Milan, Italy, since February 1, 2015, where he is the Quality Assurance referent since January 2019. After his M.D. in 1988, he got post-graduate specialties in allergy & clinical immunology and infectious diseases. He is on staff at Luigi Sacco hospital in Milan since February 1994. His research interests are: (i) experimental models of antiretroviral therapy and viral mutants in vitro; (ii) genotypic and phenotypic analysis of resistance to antiretroviral drugs; (iii) design and conduct of clinical trials with antiretroviral drugs. He holds post-graduate certifications in design and conduct of clinical trials and in advanced bioethics and has been the scientific secretary at Milan Area 1 Inter-hospital IRB from July 1999 to January 2017. He has been elected as EACS regional representative in 2012-2016. He is the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Visiting Student Learning Opportunities™ (VSLO™) representative at the University of Milan. He is a member of the External Scientific Review Board of CARE: Common Action against HIV/TB/HCV across the Regions of Europe (https://www.careresearch.eu/), an Horizon 2020 research project.

Academic Years 2010/11-ongoing: teaching of Infectious Diseases to Medical School students; 2012/13-ongoing: teaching of Infectious Diseases to Prevention Health Sciences students, both at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Since 2012: member of HIV/AIDS ITALIAN EXPERT PANEL for Italian Guidelines.

Referee: HIVERA for European Research Projects on HIV/AIDS, International AIDS Conference, World AIDS Conference, Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research and several medical journals.

Authored/co-authored 263 original peer-reviewed publications. H-index: 27.

Dr.ssa Arianna Gabrieli is post Doc researcher at the Infectious and Tropical Disease Laboratory of the Sacco Hospital. She graduated in 2006 at the University “Tor Vergata” (Rome) in Medical Biotechnology and she got a PhD in “Molecular Medicine” at the University of Milan (2008). Her research activities are mostly focused on COVID-19 ,in particular on the study of the pathogenesis of COVID-19 infection and of innate and cell-mediated immune responses, and on HIV infection, in particular on the characterization of the viral reservoir in HIV-infected patients by Digital PCR and microRNA analysis in HIV positive patient. She collaborated to several clinical trials. Her research activity is documented by peer-reviewed publications and studies presented at national and international conferences.