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Founding Members


Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, MS

President, Founding Member

Chair, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Alfred & Jill Sommer Professor and Chair

Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health

Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Frank L. van de Veerdonk, PhD, MD 
President-Elect, Founding Member

Head of Infectious Diseases Radboudumc

Professor Immunotherapy for Infectious Diseases

ECMM Diamond Excellence in Mycology

Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases

Nijmegen, The Netherlands


Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis, MD, ScD, PhD (Hon)

Secretary/Treasurer, Founding Member

Robert C Hickey Chair in Clinical Care

President Mycoses Study Group Education and
Research Consortium

ECMM Diamond Excellence in Mycology Center/www.ecmm.info

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, USA


Board Members At-Large


Darius Armstrong-James, BM BCh, PhD, MSc

Professor, Infectious Diseases and Medical Mycology

Imperial College of London

London, United Kingdom


Tihana Bicanic, BM BCh, MD Res, MSc, MA

Professor, Infectious Diseases and Mycology

School of Health and Medical Sciences

City St George’s, University of London

London, United Kingdom


Agostinho Carvalho, PhD, FECMM

Principal Investigator

University of Minho

Braga, Portugal


Georgios Chamilos, MD

IMBB Group Leader

Professor, Head of Clinical Microbiology Lab

School of Medicine, University of Crete

Heraklion, Crete, Greece


Rebecca Drummond, PhD, BSc

Professor of Fungal Immunology, Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy

Lister Institute Fellow

University of Birmingham

Birmingham, United Kingdom


Tobias M. Hohl, MD, PhD

Chief and Attending Physician

Infectious Disease Service, Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, USA


Ashraf S. Ibrahim, PhD

Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Los Angeles, California, USA


Oliver Kurzai, MD

Chair, Medical Microbiology and Mycology

Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology

Julius Maximilians University

Würzburg, Germany


Michail S. Lionakis, MD, ScD

Senior Investigator

Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology
& Microbiology (LCIM) 

Chief, Fungal Pathogenesis Section, LCIM

National Institute of Allergy & Infectious
Diseases (NIAID)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Bethesda, Maryland, USA


Mihai G. Netea, PhD

Chair, Experimental Internal Medicine

Radboud University Medical Center

Nijmegen, The Netherlands


John R. Perfect, MD

James B. Duke Professor of Medicine

Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina, USA


Brad Spellberg, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Los Angeles General Medical Center

Los Angeles, California, USA


Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD

Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians
and Surgeons

Associate Dean for Academic Innovation

Director of Physician Scientist Programs at
the Vagelos Institute

New York, New York, USA




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