Prof. Carlo Giaquinto, MD, is a full Professor of Pediatrics and the Director of the Pediatric and Neonatal Infectious Diseases Unit at the Department of Women’s and Child’s Health at the University of Padova. He is also the President of the Penta Foundation Onlus. His main interest has always been research on pediatric infections, particularly in the following fields: HIV, vaccinations, pediatric drugs, rotavirus infections, and diarrhea, and, since February 2020, infection from SARS-CoV-2. In addition, on 26 May 2017, he was given the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) Bill Marshal Award, and from 1 December 2023 to 30 November 2026, he worked as an Honorary Professor in the UCL MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.