Professor Carla Renata Arciola, MD, PhD, is a Full Professor of Clinical Pathology at the School of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Bologna. She is the Director of the Research Laboratory on the Pathology of Implant Infections at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute of Bologna. She is the Director of the Research Laboratory on Immunorheumatology and Tissue Regeneration at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute of Bologna. After receiving a degree in Medicine and Surgery summa cum laude, she was awarded a PhD in Experimental Pathology by the University of Bologna. She achieved three medical specializations. As a clinical pathologist with an education in biomedical engineering, she has searched for and evaluated new anti-infective materials/coatings/nanocoatings and studied bacterial biofilms, immunity in implant infections, bone/material/bacteria interactions, implant pathology, and tissue engineering. She has been invited to join international scientific Evaluation Boards of research agencies and Editorial Boards of prestigious journals quoted by ISI and to write leading opinion papers. She has created a strain library of thousands of bacteria from implant orthopedic infections to study anti-infective materials, immune defenses against infections, aetiopathogenesis, molecular pathology, and epidemiology.