MD, University of Bologna Medical School (1981). Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology (1987) and in Oncology (1990), University of Bologna Medical School.
Resident, clinical fellow, Centro Tumori, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna (1982-88). Research fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass (1988-89). Staff, Laboratorio di Ricerca Oncologica, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (1989-99). At the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli: staff surgeon, Orthopaedic Oncology, Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica I (1999-11); Head, Orthopaedic Pathophysiology and Regenerative Medicine Lab (2011-20), Musculoskeletal Cell Biology Lab (2018-20), and Nanobiotechnology Lab (2019-now). Head of the Biomedical Science and Technology and Nanobiotechnology Unit (2020-now). Director of the Department Rizzoli-RIT (Research, Innovation & Technology) (2018-now).
European Project Advisory Board UNIBO, PhD Program in Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences. Collegio Superiore. Director, Center for Precision Medicine DIBINEM.
Visiting Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (2013-18).
Past-President of the European Orthopaedic Research Society, the Connective Tissue Oncology Society, the Italian Orthopaedic Research Society. President, the International Society of Cancer Metabolism.
Author of over 300 peer-reviewed, PubMed indexed papers. H-index (Scopus): 62. Total citations (Scopus): > 15.000.
