Claudio Tiribelli earned a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua and specialized in Gastroenterology at the University of Trieste. He served as a Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry from 1989 to 2008 and a Full Professor of Gastroenterology from 2009 to 2016. He is an expert hepatologist renowned for his research on bilirubin, particularly on kernicterus, a type of neurological damage caused by bilirubin in newborns. The founder and current Scientific Director of the Italian Liver Foundation-Onlus, located at AREA Science Park in Basovizza, an internationally recognized center for translational hepatological research and education, he has authored over 437 publications, with a total citation count of 24,486 and an h-index of 69 (Scopus).