Franco Lucchini is currently working as a Researcher at the Department for Sustainable Food Process, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy. In 1988, he obtained a degree in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Milan. In the same year, he started working at the Joint Research Centre – EURATOM in Ispra (VA) and was involved as a researcher in the field of transgenic animal technology. In 1990, he was a research fellow at CNR in the framework of the “Human Genome” project. In the same year, in the framework of this project, he was a visiting researcher at the ICRF, Zoology Department of Oxford University, for training on mouse ES cell culture techniques. His research interests include Lab animals, DNA cloning, PCR, transgenic, and Intestinal Epithelial Cells.