Luigi Bartalena is a professor at the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the
University of Insubria, Varese, Italy. He completed his M.D. at the University
of Pisa Medical School in 1975. He has been awarded the Schering Prize of the
Italian Society of Endocrinology, Verona in 1988, the Aldo Pinchera Lecture
Prize of the European Thyroid Association, Leiden in 2013, and the George Murray
Lecture Award of the British Thyroid Association, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK in
2016. He has 381 publications, with 17,077 citations and an h-index of 68
(Scopus, 27 October 2023).
Lorenzo Mortara is an expert scientist in the field of tumor immunology, cancer immunotherapy, and the pathogenesis of HIV and COVID-19. He obtained his Biological Sciences degree at the University of Science of Genoa in 1993, where he also passed the qualifying examination for Professional Biologist and obtained the post-graduate title of Specialist in Allergology and Clinical Immunology in 1997. He completed his doctoral studies in immunology (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry School) in Paris at the University of Paris 7–Denis Diderot, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Immunology in 1999. In April 2002, he obtained the title of European Doctor in Biotechnology, from Higher Education in Biotechnology (HEduBT). Since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor in General Pathology at the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
