Prof. Dr. Giovanni Monteleone is a professor at the Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He completed his Ph.D. studies in medicine at the University of Reggio Calabria and has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of Public Health by the President of the Italian Republic. Most of his research is focused on mechanisms involved in the control of mucosal immune homeostasis and inflammatory signals that sustain and amplify pathological processes in the gastrointestinal tract. He is also interested in the networks involved in the gastrointestinal carcinogenesis.