Dr Charalampos Antachopoulos graduated with excellent grades from the Medical School of the University of Athens, Greece in 1991. He was trained in Pediatrics in the United Kingdom as well as in “Aghia Sophia” Children's hospital, Athens. He then pursued a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Infectious Diseases Unit of Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC and the Immunocompromised Host Section of Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. His research projects at the National Cancer Institute focused on the optimization of assessment of metabolic activity of filamentous fungi (mainly the Zygomycetes and Aspergillus) in order to develop methods for quantification of antifungal activity of newer agents (azoles, echinocandins) and rapid susceptility testing of these moulds as well as for studying host immune responses against these organisms. In August 2007 he was appointed as a Lecturer in Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases at the 3rd Department of Pediatrics of Aristotle University, in Hippokration Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece. He currently works as an Associate Professor in this Department. His scientific interests include fungal infections, nosocomial infections, as well as the use of newer antimicrobial agents in pediatrics.