Emanuele Durante-Mangoni is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Campania ‘L. Vanvitelli’ and the 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, has 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. He is a Scientific Board Member of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2016- ) and an 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.