Anna Papa

Prof. Anna Papa, MD, Ph.D. is leading the Department of Microbiology in the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the Head of the National Reference Centre for Arboviruses and Hemorrhagic Fever viruses and the current President of the Hellenic Society of Virology. She has published 210 scientific articles, most of them on emerging infectious diseases. Her research focuses on the diagnostics, discovery of novel viral strains, immune response and molecular epidemiology of arboviruses, mainly West Nile virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and phleboviruses. She collaborates with several scientific groups in Europe and US, and is partner of several EU projects.