Professor Christina Christodoulou is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Department of Molecular Virology at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics. She completed PhD studies at the Pasteur Institute. She has 82 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests include the molecular study of persistent infection by neurotropic viruses; monitoring viral agents responsible for viral meningitis in Cyprus; monitoring viral agents responsible for respiratory infections in Cyprus; herpesviruses as potential etiology of multiple sclerosis; and study of precise immunological markers specific in multiple sclerosis patients.