Dimitrios P Bogdanos is a Professor of Medicine and Autoimmune Diseases at the University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. He is the Head of the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences. He is the Chairman and Director of the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, and the Director of Inpatient and Outpatient Clinics of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Larissa in Central Greece. He is also the Co-Chairman of the Research and Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of Larissa. He has specialized in Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology at the University College London Medical School and King’s College Hospital, UK. He has obtained his MD in Greece (1998), an MBA (Berlin), and his PhD in Immunology and Immunopathology (University of London, 2005). He is the recipient of more than 35 prizes, awards, and distinctions for his clinical and research work. Amongst them, the most influential were those of the Higher Education Funding Council of England (2005), the Dame Sheila Sherlock Medal, BASL, UK (2004), and the Sir Yule Bogue Prize (London 2001). His research is focused on three fields: the role of molecular mimicry and immunological cross-reactivity in the induction of autoimmunity; the identification of novel autoantigens and biomarkers in immune-mediated diseases; and the interplay between the microbiome and the clinical and translational advances in immunonutrition.