Marco Candela is a professor at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy. He is also a vice-coordinator and an academic board member of the international PhD program “Innovative Technologies and Sustainable Use of Mediterranean Sea Fishery and Biological Resources”, University of Bologna. Marco Candela holds his degree in Biological Sciences (Faculty of Sciences), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science (Faculty of Medicine), both from the University of Bologna. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology at the same university. In addition, he is an Editorial Board Member in ISRN Microbiology, in Word Journal of Gastroenterology and in BMC Microbiology.