Dario Roccatello is a Full Professor of Clinical Pathology at the University of Turin and Director of the Center of Research on Immunopathology and Rare Diseases (CMID), San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Turin. He is also a Director of the Interregional Coordination Center of Rare Diseases for Piedmont and Aosta Valley and Director of the 2nd level 2-year Master on Rare Diseases at Turin Medical School. He specialized in nephrology and nuclear medicine and is presently interested in molecular medicine, specifically in the field of Realtime PCR. He has been a visiting fellow at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide (Australia). He led a Research Collaboration with the Pathology Department at Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island, USA, was a Visiting Investigator in the Department of Immunology and Allergic Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA and Attaché Associé Scientifique at the Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire of Grenoble (France). He has authored 400 scientific articles, 118 of which were published in peer-reviewed International Journals, in the fields of nephrology, clinical immunology and laboratory medicine.