Maurizio Martini received his MD (with honor) in 1997 and obtained the Specialization in Pathological Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome in 2002. Then, in 2007, he received his Ph.D. at the same university. After graduation, he worked at the same university, and he became an Associate Professor in Pathology in 2021. He is now a Professor in the Department of Human Pathology in Adult and Developmental Age "Gaetano Barresi", Section of Pathology, University of Messina. His research interests include hematopathology, glioblastoma cancer stem cells, gastrointestinal tumors, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, and genitourinary cancer.