Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Riva is currently working as an Associate Professor of Virology at the Università Campus Bio-Medico of Rome. Since 2014, she has served as the Director of the Resident School in Microbiology and Virology, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy. She is the Manager of the Clinical Operative Unit of  Virology and a member of the UOC laboratory at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy . She obtained a PhD Degree in Immuno-biology of Viruses from the University of Pisa-“Sapienza” in Rome in 1995. Her research is  focused on clinical virology, mainly on respiratory viral Infections and herpesvirus reactivaction in frail patients.