Andrea Bianco is a Full Professor of Respiratory Diseases at the Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Respiratory Sciences, Monaldi Hospital, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy. He obtained his PhD Degree in Broncho-Pneumology from the University of Naples, Italy in 1993. He received the Specialization Degree in Respiratory Diseases in 1996. Then he completed his Scientific Research Fellowship at the Keele University/North Staffordshire Hospital Trust, Stoke on Trent, UK in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he finished his Post-Doctoral Research Fellow as a Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the same university. His research interests include cancer therapy, lung cancer, asthma, lung diseases, prognostic markers, PCR, PET, screening and imaging. He is the author and co-author of more than 150 publications in international peer-reviewed journals.