Pietro Di Fazio graduated as Biologist at University of Palermo in 2004. He worked as Research Fellow at Department of Pathology & Experimental and Clinical Medicine at University of Udine. He achieved his doctorate in Experimental Oncobiology at Department of Biochemical Sciences at University of Palermo where he started his PostDoc career. He was awarded of a fellowship from University of Palermo and a Short Term Fellowship from EASL. He moved to University of Marburg in 2009 being awarded with a Sheila Sherlock PostDoc Fellowship from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). Since 2011, he is a permanent scientist at Marburg University at the Department of Visceral Thoracic and Vascular Surgery studying liver, thyroid and pancreas pathogenesis, apoptosis, ER stress and autophagy. His activity has produced more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. He is regular reviewer of journals in the field of cancer and gastroenterology. He is associate editor of BMC Cancer and editorial board of Hepatoma Research, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, Gastroenterology Insights.