Evaluating the proposal of paediatric virology: An interview with Professor Tina Dalianis, Professor of Tumour Virology at Karolinska Institutet

Mammas,Ioannis N.; Spandidos,Demetrios A.

doi:10.3892/etm.2018.6543

Evaluating the proposal of paediatric virology: An interview with Professor Tina Dalianis, Professor of Tumour Virology at Karolinska Institutet

Authors:
- Ioannis N. Mammas
- Demetrios A. Spandidos
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Affiliations: Department of Clinical Virology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion 71003, Greece
Published online on: July 31, 2018 https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6543
Pages: 2785-2789
Copyright: © Mammas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

Professor Tina Dalianis, Professor of Tumour Virology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, is a well‑known virologist with a strong international reputation and seminal contributions in tumour virology in the fields of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and polyomaviruses. According to Professor Dalianis, over the past decades virology has significantly contributed to the understanding of many infectious diseases in medicine. In addition, quite a few antiviral therapies have been developed in recent years that have been very helpful, while the study of viruses has also provided valuable information about their host cells and basic cell biology. She highlights the association of HPVs with tonsillar and base of tongue cancers, as well as their epidemic rise. She also refers to additional biomarkers, which are under investigation, in order to better individualise patient care, by for example, de‑escalating or targeted therapy, whenever this is possible. She clarifies that the current prophylactic vaccines against HPVs are very efficient for the types they are directed against and she hopes that boys will also soon be vaccinated against HPVs, particularly in countries where there is a low percentage of girls being vaccinated. According to Professor Dalianis, the knowledge of virology is very useful in general paediatric practice; the proposal of paediatric virology as a medical subspecialty is absolutely correct and it would be very useful, as there is much to be done. In the context of the ‘4th Workshop on Paediatric Virology’, Professor Tina Dalianis will give the plenary lecture of this scientific event and will focus on changes in the prevalence of different HPVs in genital and oral samples in some groups of youth in Sweden during the introduction of the vaccines against HPVs.

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