Gianandrea Pasquinelli is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna. He graduated from Medical School at the Università degli Studi di Bologna in 1983 and completed a residency in Surgical Pathology from the University of Bologna in 1988. He has served as a researcher at the Institute of Normal and Pathological Cytomorphology, CNR, from 1984 to 1988 and as an Assistant Professor at Pathology Unit, University Hospital S. Orsola from 1988 to 2002. From November 2002 to 2018, he worked as an Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology at the School of Medicine, University of Bologna, and became a Full Professor of Biotechnology and Methods in Laboratory Medicine on 11 June 2018. He is member of Italian Group of Ultrastructural Pathology (GIPU), National Institute for Cardiovascular Research (INRC), National Institute Biostructures and Biosystems (INBB), Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica e Citologia Diagnostica (SIAPEC), and as a Founding Member of Società Italiana per la Ricerca Traslazionale e le Professioni Sanitarie (SIRTEPS). His research interests include electron microscopy techniques, ultrastructure of normal and pathological cells and tissues, nephropathology, and vascular stem cells.