
Chairman of the board:
Louis Bont, MD, PhD
Louis Bont, MD, PhD
- Current Position(s): Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist
Leader of the Utrecht RSV Research Group - Workplace: University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Title: MD PhD
- Education: Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam (Medicine) and University Medical Center Utrecht (specialty training Pediatrics and subspecialty training Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology)
- Relevant Networks:
Dutch RSV Neonatal Network (leader),
TAILORED,
ESPID Research Committee,
Training Upcoming Leaders in Pediatric Sciences (TULIPS, leader) - Specific expertise for RSV Network: clinical follow-up studies, translational medicine, host genetics
- Personal Website
- LinkedIn | Publications on PubMed

Anne Greenough, Prof. Dr
- Current Position(s): Head of School of Medicine, King’s College London
Principal Investigator MRC Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma - Workplace: Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, King’s College, London
- Title(s): Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology
- Education: University of Cambridge and University College, London,
- Relevant Networks: Chair of NIHR Paediatrics (Non Medicines) Specialty Group
- Specific expertise: Respiratory physiology, respiratory follow up, neonatology, educational activities
- Personal Website

Terho Heikkinen, MD, PhD, Docent
- Current Position(s): Assistant Professor of Paediatrics,
Specialist in Paediatric Infectious Diseases - Workplace: Department of Paediatrics, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Title(s): MD, PhD, Docent
- Education: Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland: MD (1984), PhD (1994), Specialty in Paediatrics (1995) and Paediatric Infectious Diseases (2000), Docent (2001); University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, USA (Research fellowship 1996-1998).
- Relevant Networks: Program for Infection Biology and Infectious Diseases, BioCity Turku and University of Turku, Finland (vice director); ESPID Research Committee, International Society for Otitis Media
- Specific expertise: Clinical intervention and follow-up studies, viral respiratory infections

Paolo Manzoni, MD, PhD
- Current Position(s): Consultant Neonatologist,
- Workplace: S. Anna Hospital NICU, Torino, Italy
- Title(s): MD, PhD
- Education:
School of Medicine, Torino;
Specialization Pediatrics, Torino;
Specialization in Neonatal Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm - Relevant Networks:
GSIN (Italian network for the neonatal infectious diseases);
OPBG Clinical Trial Center network, Rome (Vatican-Italian network for neonatal clinical trials) - Specific expertise: AIFA (Italian drug agency) and EMA expert consultant activities, neonatal clinical trials, clinical follow-up studies, translational research, educational activities

Federico Martinón-Torres, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof.
- Current Position(s): Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care,
Head of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines Unit,
Associate Professor in Pediatrics
Coordinator of Genetics, Vaccines, Infections and Pediatrics research group (GENVIP) - Workplace: Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), University of Santiago (Spain)
- Title(s): MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof
- Education: University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Children’s Memorial of Chicago (USA)
- Relevant Networks:
Clinical Coordinator of EUCLIDS consortium clinical network,
Coordinator of Spanish Meningococcal Research Network,
Coordinator of Galician Pediatric Research Network,
Coordinator of Pediatric Respiratory Infection Network,
Co-coordinator of Pediatric network in PREPARE - Specific expertise: Vaccines, Heliox, Bronchiolitis, ID host genetics, Noninvasive ventilation
- Personal Website
- Twitter: @fedemartinon, @genvip_research

Harish Nair, MBBS, PhD, DNB, DCH, MSc, FHEA
- Current Position(s): Senior Research Fellow
- Workplace: Center for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School
- Title(s): MBBS, PhD, DNB (Pediatrics), DCH, MSc, FHEA
- Education: University of Edinburgh- PhD and MSc; University of Delhi (Maulana Azad Medical College)- Medical degree (MBBS), and specialty training and post graduate degree (Doctor of Medicine) in Paediatrics [DCH, DNB (Paediatrics)].
- Relevant Networks: RSV Global Estimate Network (Lead Investigator); Severe ALRI Working Group (Lead Investigator); Influenza Study Group (Lead Investigator). Advisor to WHO on Child Health and Pandemic and Infectious Diseases
- Specific expertise: Global Child Health and Infectious Disease Epidemiology with specific interest in paediatric respiratory infectious diseases.
- Personal Website

Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, MD, PhD
- Current Position(s): Professor of Allergy and Pediatric Allergy, University of Manchester
Associate Professor of Allergy and Pediatric Allergy, Medical School, University of Athens.
Head of the Allergy Department, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Greece. - Workplace: Manchester Children's Hospital
2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Greece. - Title(s): MD, PhD
- Education: Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
Doctorate. Center of Immunology of Infectious Disease, Chair of Microbiology, Medical School, NKUA. - Relevant Networks: EAACI (www.eaaci.org), PreDicta project (www.predicta.eu)
- Specific expertise: Infections and Allergy, Rhinovirus