I followed my studies in Rome, graduating from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. After my residency in General Surgery (Policlinico Universitario Fondazione Agostino Gemelli), I earned a PhD in Solid Organ Transplantation and moved to the UK. Working in academic hospitals with excellent reputation (Guy's and St Thomas', Great Ormond Street Hospital, and The Royal London Hospital), I was involved in national and international research projects, consolidating a deep interest in clinical research. Now, I work as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Università degli Studi di Milano. Also, I work as a consultant Transplant and Vascular Access Surgeon at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan. My main areas of expertise and investigation are clinical immunosuppression, rejection, recurrent primary renal diseases, post-transplant infectious, cardiovascular, and neoplastic complications. My current personal and professional goals include: the implementation of the italian pediatric donation after circulatory death kidney transplant program, the creation of a national registry collecting data from all cases of kidney allograft neoplasms diagnosed and treated in my country, the design and funding of multicenter randomized clinical trials investigating a multimodality induction scheme with type-2 anti-CD20 and anti-C5 monoclonal antibodies for the prevention and treatment of antibody-mediated rejection in highly-sensitized kidney transplant recipients, the development and validation of cardiovascular risk stratification tools for kidney transplant candidates and kidney transplant recipients, and evaluating possible pharmacological strategies for the prevention or minimization of ischemia-reperfusion injury.