Professor Thomas I. Michalak is an Honorary and University Research Professor at Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL Canada.  He is former Senior (Tier 1) Canada Research Chair in Viral Hepatitis/Immunology and Professor of Molecular Virology and Medicine (Hepatology). He served as the coordinator of Graduate Programme in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Memorial University. Professor Michalak is an internationally recognized expert in molecular and immunological mechanisms of viral persistence, virus-induced cellular injury and carcinogenesis, and in animal and in vitro models of hepatitis viral infections. He graduated medicine at the Warsaw Medical University and received PhD in immunopathology in 1976. He became the Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College of London, UK and the Visiting Investigator in Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. He is elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to the fight against liver diseases and received the Gold Medal from the Canadian Association for Study of the Liver and the Canadian Liver Foundation for achievements in research and science in hepatology. He severed on several research granting agencies in Canada, USA and other countries, editorial boards, and as a reviewer of numerous scientific papers.