Haralabia Boleti is a Principal Investigator, head of the Intracellular Parasitism Lab/Microbiology Department and co-head of the Light Microscopy Unit of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute (HPI, https://www.pasteur.gr/en/haralabia-boleti/). She has a BSc in Chemistry (1985, U. of Athens), ΜSc in Biochemistry (1990, University of Αlberta, Edmonton, Canada) and carried out her PhD thesis work (1995) in the European Molecular Biology laboratory (EMBL/ Heidelberg, Germany) obtaining her PhD degree from the University of Heidelberg. She was a post-doctoral fellow at ΕMBL (1995-1996) and at the Institut Pasteur in Paris (1996-1999) in the laboratory “Βiologie des Interactions Cellulaires”. She returned in Greece in 2000 with a Mobility grant of the International Network of Pasteur Institutes and since 2002 she holds a researcher’s position in the Department of Microbiology of HPI. Her research interests focus on aspects of the molecular Cellular Biology of the Intracelllular Protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani (L. donovani), and its interaction with the mammalian host macrophages. Her goal is to contribute to the understanding of molecular mechanisms characterizing the initial stages of the infection and the identification and characterization of candidate putative drug targets for the development of anti-leishmanial drugs. Also, her team works on biotechnological applications of the organism Leishmania tarentolae (non human pathogen Leishmania species) for the expression and production of recombinant eukaryotic proteins, as an in vitro system for the testing of anti-leishmanial substances.