Prof. Anne-Mieke Vandamme was trained as biochemist, and holds a PhD in sciences since 1986. She joined the Rega Institute at the University of Leuven in 1990, where she started a unit on virus genetic testing for clinical practice. Together with Professor Van Ranst, she founded a new division, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology. She recently co-started the “Institute of the future”, a transdisciplinary research incubator. She has been participating in several European projects, and supported the development of a few widely used (bioinformatics) tools, the Rega HIV Drug Resistance algorithm, the Rega HIV typing and subtyping tool, and RegaDB, a free and open source software for collecting and sharing HIV epidemiological, clinical, and virological data. In addition to her research activities, Anne-Mieke Vandamme is the founder and organizer of the yearly International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (25th in 2020), co-initiator and co-organizer of the European HIV Drug Resistance Workshop (18th in 2020), invited Professor at the ‘Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical’, and visiting Professor at the Medical School, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She teaches Evolutionary Genetics and Bioinformatics at the University of Leuven, and co-started an Honours Programme on Transdisciplinary Insights. She also launched a new eJournal for the Institute for Future: Transdisciplinary Insights.