Luca Quartuccio received his M.D. in 2003 from University of Udine. He completed his clinical fellowship training in Rheumatology at Rheumatology Clinic of Udine in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Sciences and Technologies in 2011. He worked as researcher in Rheumatology from 2010 to 2019. At present he is associate professor of Rheumatology at the University of Udine. He focused his investigations on the eziopathogenetic and therapeutic features of different rheumatic diseases, with particular interest on the role of B cells in cryoglobulinemic vasculitis, Sjögren’s syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis. In the 2008 he was awarded the Young Researcher Award in the Italian Society of Rheumatology for his contribution in the field of the predictors of response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis, and in the 2014 he was awarded the EULAR abstract Award in the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology for his contribution in the field of treatment of cryoglobulinemic vasculitis by B depleting treatment. Luca Quartuccio published more than 200 works in the field of rheumatic diseases (source: PubMed), many of them as first, second or last author.