Franco Scaldaferri received an MD and Ph.D. from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. He has been a Gastroenterologist at the GastroUnit of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore since 2009, since 2022 head of the IBD unit at Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli. His main expertise and responsibilities include the outpatient clinic for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), clinical trials, endoscopy, research activities, and translational research. He is also a member of several scientific societies dealing with IBD pathogenesis, IBD management, colonic cancer and cancer on chronic colitis, innate and adaptive immunity and IBD, colon cancer screening, intestinal microbiota composition, and modulation.