Prof. Fabrizio Montecucco (h index 34) is 39 years old and has a large experience in the research field of atherosclerosis and acute ischemic events. After obtaining his MD at the University of Genoa (Italy), he studied Internal Medicine at San Martino Hospital and University of Genoa, becoming Specialist in 2008. Then, he moved for a post-doctoral fellowship to the laboratory Professor François Mach, University of Geneva (Switzerland). In 2012 he obtained his PhD at the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Genoa (Italy). After obtaining an unpaid license from the University of Genoa, he moved back to Geneva to continuing his research work at the Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine and Division of Cardiology. In 2015, he moved back to the University of Genoa, becoming Associate Professor in 2016. Fabrizio Montecucco is author of more than 200 publications with high Impact Factor and during his carrier he has already obtained more than 2 million euro as research grants. In 2011 and 2014, he obtained two Swiss National Science Foundation grants on the pathophysiology of atherogenesis and cardiovascular diseases (#32003B_134963/1 and #310030_152639/1). The research interest of Dr. Montecucco is the development of animal models of atherosclerosis, acute myocardial infarction, chronic myocardial ischemia and ischemic stroke. In the last 10 years, he substantially contributed to better clarify the inflammatory mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis and its acute dramatic complications, such myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke in both human cohort and animal studies.