Prof. Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein is currently an associate professor at the chair of Virology, and coordinator of the PhD course in Microbiology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, and Transplants (MIMIT), at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Since 2017, she has been the scientific director and vice-president of the Italian Foundation of HCV Virology Italian Resistance Network Study Group—Fondazione VIRONET C. She obtained her PhD in Biology at the University of Munich “Ludwig-Maximilians”, Germany in 2001. She has been involved in research activity on viruses since 1996. Her research interests and expertise are on HIV infection, antiviral drugs, HIV-HBV-HCV drug-resistance, viral pathogenesis, viral tropism, viral evolution and dynamics, genotypic (by Sanger and NGS sequencing), structural and functional analysis of viral proteins. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Italian Cohort of Antiretroviral-Naïve Patients (ICONA) Foundation, a member of the IAS-USA HIV Drug Resistance Mutations Panel, and from 2014 to 2017 was a member of the Coordinator and Scientific Comity of the Italian Association of Liver Study (AISF). She is also a member of the editorial board in BMJ Sexually Transmitted Infections, PLoS ONE and AIDS Reviews.