Professor Dr. Mario R. Romano is a Full Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Postgraduate Residency Program for Ophthalmology at Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy. He also has a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the UK, and a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Diseases at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School in Boston, the USA. He is the inventor of three patents in the vitreoretinal field. He earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Molecular Oncology from the University of Ferrara. He focuses on research into rhegmatogenous and proliferative vitreoretinal pathologies, intraocular devices (intraocular tamponades, vital dyes, and shunts), degenerative macular diseases, cellular regeneration, macroglial cells, and retinal microglia. He is the winner of several national and international grants awarded on a competitive basis.