Prof. Massimo Negrini is a full professor at the Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Bologna, Italy. He is also the director of the Postgraduate School of Specialization in Medical Genetics of the University of Ferrara and the director of the Molecular Biology Program in the oncology field at the Ferrara University Hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Ferrara in 1991. In addition, he is an editor-in-chief of the BioTech journal. He is also a member of the editorial board of other international biomedical journals focusing on the investigation of nucleic acids in the medical field. His research topics mainly include cancer genomics, microRNA, non-coding RNA, RNA-based diagnostic approaches, and RNA-based therapeutic approaches.