Marcello Ciaccio is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Director of the Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Molecular Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Moreover, he is Director of the Complex Operating Unit of Analysis of Laboratory Medicine - CoreLab of the A.O.U.P. Palermo. He has been invited to take part in several conferences as moderator and as speaker. He has been Chair of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC). He has published over 400 scientific papers and he is reviewer of several scientific journals.