Emiliano Cocco is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. He received his BS in Biology and MS in Cell Molecular Biology from the University of Milan in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology Applied to Biomedical Science from the University of Brescia in 2015. His research interests focus on studying the biology of tumors that harbor rare oncogenic drivers and identifying mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapy in these malignancies.