Cinzia Benazzi has been a full professor at the University of Bologna since 2003 (after a three-year period of overtime). She graduated in Veterinary Medicine with honours from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Bologna in 1980. In the following years, she followed the Annual Epidemiological Course on Infectious Diseases and Prophylaxis and the Annual Course in Foodstuffs at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Bologna. She also followed the Pathological Anatomy Update Course for Veterinarians organized by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Turin, in conjunction with the Order of Veterinary Medical Practitioners of the Province of Cuneo. In 1996, she received a (de facto) Diploma from the European College of Veterinary Pathologists. In 1983, she became a researcher at the Pathological Anatomy Service of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Bologna, winning a free competition held in January 1982, and in 1987, she was appointed associate professor after winning a free competition held in June 1986. In 2000, she was appointed a full professor in Veterinary General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy. She conducts her research in the area of mammary neoplasms in domestic carnivores with particular emphasis on aspects of comparative pathology with the human model of disease, investigations of tumour kinetics and tumour turnover, adhesion molecules, and lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis in the metastatic process.