Giorgio Sirugo, MD, PhD, is a medical geneticist, whose primary research focus is on the genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases. Dr. Sirugo has extensive expertise in this area of studies, having spent many years as a Research Clinician at the MRC (UK) Unit in The Gambia, West Africa. There he created and directed the first DNA bank in sub-Saharan Africa, funded by the MRC in the year 2000. He participated, as a co-investigator, in the Wellcome–Trust Consortium for genome-wide association studies of tuberculosis and malaria. He is currently a senior clinician-scientist at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.