Antonio Leni is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Pathology "Gaetano Barresi", Section of Anatomic Pathology, University of Messina. One of his research interests is the role of autophagy and its regulation in cancer cells. His research keywords include cancer and pathology. He has 175 publications with 3159 citations and an h-index of 27 (Scopus, 26 December 2023).