Tommaso Zanocco–Marani is a Researcher Bio13 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He graduated from the University of Modena in 1995. He then completed an Internship in Molecular Biology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Modena from 1993 to 1997, and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kimmel Cancer Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University from 1997 to 1999. He received PhD in Biotechnology and Experimental Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2003 and a Research Grant from the Section of Biological Chemistry from 2003 to 2004. He received AIRC “Mario e Valeria Rindi” three-year grant for cancer research from 2004 to 2005. In recent years, the laboratory has devoted itself to the development and fine-tuning of an active animal model that recapitulates, in the mouse, the various types of pemphigus, an autoimmune blistering disease of the skin. In addition, for several years, the study of the role of mRNA “binding proteins” belonging to the TIS11/TTP/ZFP36 family in tumors of epithelial origin and diseases characterized by a chronic inflammatory response such as psoriasis has been underway.