Dr. Ferdinando Nicoletti graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Catania in 1987 with a final mark of 110/110 with honours. He obtained his residency in Allergology and Clinical Immunology at the Institute of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Immunopathology at the University of Milan in 1990. He was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Microbiology of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan from 1991 to 2001. He became the Associate Professor of General Pathology in 2001 and served in this role at the University of Catania until 2007. He has been a Full Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Catania since 2006. Ferdinando Nicoletti has been an external consultant at the Institute for Inflammation Research, Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1999. Ferdinando Nicoletti was Vice-President of the ethics committee of Cannizzaro Hospital in Catania in 2009. He is currently the President of the IACUC of the University of Catania. The main focus of Professor Nicoletti's research is in the area of translational immunology and oncology, ranging from studies of pathogenetic mechanisms to Phase II proof-of-concept studies.