Luca Falzone is Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania. He is collaborating with the “G. Pascale” National Cancer Institute of Naples (Naples, Italy) in the management of a clinical trial on the effects of the Mediterranean Diet and exercise in the reduction of breast cancer recurrence. He is also responsible for the management of a bio-bank of biological samples from cancer patients and non-cancer individuals located at the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences of the University of Catania (Catania, Italy). He received his Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques at the University of Catania in 2014. The following year, he obtained a Master's Degree in Biomolecular Techniques in Bio-Medicine and Forensics Sciences at the University of Catania. In 2018, he received a Master of Sciences in Medical Biotechnologies at the University of Catania. In 2021, he also earned a Ph.D. in Basic and Applied Biomedical Sciences at the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences of the University of Catania (Catania, Italy). His research is focused on the molecular mechanisms of tumor development and progression with particular reference to the study of cancer cells and tumor microenvironment interactions, the study of the activation of NGA/MMP-9, and the functional role of the hyper-activation of the RAF-MAPK-ERK and PI3K-AKT signal transduction pathways.