Delia Goletti MD, PhD, is an Infectious Diseases specialist, responsible of the Translational Research Unit at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome, Italy. She has clinical duties in the Lung Infectious Diseases outpatient clinic. Her research focus is on tuberculosis immune pathogenesis, tuberculosis immunodiagnostic tests, biomarkers, autophagy, impact of helminth infection on HIV and tuberculosis disease, impact of immune-suppressive therapy on infectious diseases. She also works on the immune-pathogenesis of echinococcosis.