Luigi Boccuto received his MD from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (UCSC) in Rome, Italy, in 2002, and completed his postdoctoral studies in Medical Genetics at the same university in 2006. He is currently employed as a Faculty Member of the School of Nursing at Clemson University. Previously, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Greenwood Genetic Center in Greenwood, SC, USA, and served as Chief Scientific Officer for STALICLA, SA in Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests mainly focus on clinical genetics, metabolomics, autism spectrum disorder, metabolic profiles, PI3K-AKT-related disorders, intellectual disability (ID), overgrowth, molecular studies, and translational research.