Born in Croatia, the young Mario Poljak loved mountaineering, and climbed Kilimanjaro aged just 15 years old, despite being told he was too young. “I realised then that if I invested a lot of energy in something, I could achieve anything”, Poljak told The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Today, he is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology and Slovenian HIV/AIDS Reference Center, which he has led since 1993.

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