Dr. Maurizio Del Poeta, MD, is a physician-scientist and a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (USA) and the Chief Scientific Officer of MicroRid Technologies Inc., Dix Hills, NY (USA). The laboratory of Dr. Del Poeta studies fungal pathogenesis, vaccine development, and the discovery of new antifungal compounds for a more effective treatment of various fungal infectious diseases, particularly those infections caused by fungi resistant to clinically available drugs