Dr. Maurizio Onisto has been an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova since 2017. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular and cellular biology and pathology from the University of Padova (1988–1992). He was an assistant professor at the Institute of Histology and Embryology (in 2000 at the Department of Biomedical Sciences), School of Medicine of the University of Padova in 1992. He was a visiting fellow (1989–1990) and FIRC fellow (1997) at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) of Bethesda, MD, USA. Since 1997, he coordinates a research group continuing to study ECM remodeling and starting, at the same time, the study of genes and proteins involved in spermatogenesis. He currently deals with the study of heparanase, the unique and specific endoglycosidase capable of cleaving heparan sulfate (HS) chains. The research activity has resulted in more 95 publications of which 87 full-papers in international journals surveyed by ISI and 8 book chapters. From 2023 to date he is President of the Italian Society for the Study of Connective Tissue (SISC) currently Matrix Biology Italy. He is a Member of the ISMB – International Society for Matrix Biology.