Prof. Loredana Sarmati, M.D., born in August 1957, is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, and head of the Hospital Infection Prevention Unit at the University Hospital of Rome, Tor Vergata. Since August 2018, they have been the president of the Lazio Section of the Italian Society of Infectious Diseases. They have carried out research in the fields of epidemiology, clinical diagnostics, and laboratory infectious diseases, in particular regarding HIV, HHV-8, HCV, HBV, and P. jirovecii infection in immunocompromised hosts. They have participated as a researcher in eight consecutive research programs on the pathogenesis and therapy of HIV infection for the National AIDS Research Project of the Ministry of Health-Istituto Superiore di Sanità, in a research program on the epidemiology and clinical aspects of HHV-8 infection for the National AIDS Research Project of the Italian Ministry of Health-Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and in the EU project NEAT: European AIDS Treatment Network.