Giuseppe Luigi Banna was born in Catania, Italy. He is a Consultant Medical Oncologist for Lung and Urology tumours at the Department of Oncology of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, UK. His clinical and scientific experience has been mostly focused on thoracic, urology/testicular cancer and prognostic and predictive biomarkers. He was the clinical lead of outpatient service in Catania (Italy) and in 2017 he was entitled to the Italian qualification as Associate Professor. He promoted translational and clinical research by conducting as principal or co-investigator more than 25 sponsored GCP protocols and no-profit clinical studies, participating in national and European cancer research networks and attracting private funds to support the independent research. His current Scopus H-index is 22 based on papers currently published in scientific peer-reviewed journals. He is a coordinator of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) /Italian Germ Cell Cancer Group (IGG) guidelines for testicular germ cell tumours. He is a member of AIOM, the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG), the IGG, the Italian Urologic Meet-Uro and the EORTC Lung and Urology Cancer Group. In 2011, he co-founded a no-profit organization (Medicare Onlus) aiming to promote initiatives regarding the primary and secondary prevention of cancer and to support cancer patients and their families in the South of Italy.