Natalia Laufer graduated as a physician at Favaloro University in 1999. She specialized in infectious diseases and gained her PhD from the University of Buenos Aires and PG diploma in Clinical Trials from the University of London. She is a researcher at the Argentinean Research Council, a member of the Advisory Council of the Hepatitis Program of the Argentine Ministry of Health, and the Secretary of the Hepatitis Commission of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases. She is also a Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires.