Conférenciers invités

 Professor Carlos Alvarez Moreno, University of Colombia, Colombia

Carlos Alvarez Moreno is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colombia. His research is mainly focused to epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance, health care associated infection control, HIV/AIDS infection, H1N1, invasive fungal infections, and clinical trials related to antimicrobials. He is specialist in Tropical Medicine from the University of Alabama, USA, Honorary Member of the Infectious Diseases Association of America, Ambassador for Latin America of the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia, National Coordinator of the Solidarity for COVID-19 study at WHO. He is currently advising the Government of Colombia (presidency of the republic, Ministry of Health) in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. He has co-authored more than 20 technical reports, 115 publications, as well as more than 50 book chapters and numerous guidelines in infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, community-acquired pneumonia, nosocomial pneumonia, urinary tract infection, among others).

Professor Maria Laura Bolognesi, University of Bologna, Italy

Maria Laura Bolognesi is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Coordinator of the Biotechnological, Biocomputational, Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences PhD Program at the University of Bologna. Her research is concerned with the design, synthesis, and biological investigation of small molecules in the neurodegenerative and neglected tropical disease therapeutic areas. She has a track record of more than 180 publications in high-ranked scientific journals, including patents and patent applications, and numerous invited talks worldwide. She was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Professor Fellowship at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2009, a PVE Fellowship at the University of Brasilia in 2014 and Professeur Invité at Université Caen Normandie in 2018. She is also the President of the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (ACS) and serves in the Advisory Board of the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC).

For more information, please visit: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/marialaura.bolognesi.