Paschalis Paranos, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Southern California, Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, California. He completed his MSc in Molecular Medical Microbiology and his PhD in the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests focus on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of bacteriophage therapy. He has been involved in developing newer techniques for understanding phage dynamics and has been funded with a scholarship by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation on combination treatments of phages with antibiotics against multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates.