Sunčanica Ljubin Sternak received her M.D and Ph.D. from the School of Medicine, Zagreb University, in 1993 and 2008, respectively. She is the Head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology in the Teaching Institute of Public Health Dr Andrija Štampar and Full Professor of Medical Microbiology at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Her research interests mainly focus on virus cell culture; viral diseases; molecular virology; public health; mycoplasma and chlamydia infections; antibiotic resistance; microbiology; molecular biology; immunology; and infectious diseases.