Dr. Marino Venerito is assistant Professor in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases at the Otto-von-Guericke University Hospital of Magdeburg, Germany, where he leads the Gastrointestinal Oncology outpatient department since 2016. His current research interests focus on GI cancers. He is the leader of the European staR (gastric cancer Research) project (www.star-project.md). E-mail address: m.venerito@med.ovgu.de