Associate Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Florence (since 2005). He was born in Rome, where he graduated and specialized. He was a student of the 1st Cycle of the Italian PhD Program “Dottorato di ricerca” and the projects for his thesis "DNA repair mechanisms in Fanconi anaemia: their bearing on mutation and cancer proneness" were partly developed in Paris at Curie Institute. His earlier work looked at the emerging form of chromosome instability represented by common fragile sites and then he moved to genome instability in head and neck, breast-ovarian, and lung cancers. Current research interests include the genetic liability to complex diseases.
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Florence (1992-2004) and former Director of the Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplant Biology (2005-2012), his clinical activity at Careggi University Hospital has centered around HLA typing. He has been working in the field since the nineties and in 2013 he was appointed to the Honorary Diploma in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - European Union’s Medical Specialisations Organisation, European Board for Transplant Immunology, Heidelberg University.
Since 1992 he has been offering courses of General, Human and Medical Genetics for students of the Schools of Medicine and of Psychology of the University of Florence. He teaches Immunogenetics at the Specialty Schools of Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Nephrology, University of Florence. He also offers courses at the 2nd level Master programs in Transfusion Medicine and in Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Florence.