Raffaele Palmirotta M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Technical Sciences and Laboratory Medicine Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine Section of Sciences and Technologies of Laboratory Medicine University of Bari 'Aldo Moro' School of Medicine P.zza G. Cesare, 11 70124 Bari -Italy Dr Palmirotta has been and is the principal investigator and/or coordinator of numerous studies granted by governmental and scientific organizations, member of several national and international scientific societies, reviewer of several Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals. Dr. Palmirotta is author of 176 papers published in international journals (40 first author, 10 last author) for a total Impact Factor of more than 400, Google Scholar's citations 6722, Google Scholar's H-index 47, more than 10 book chapters and more than 200 abstracts presented at national and international meetings. Associate Editor Journal of Solid Tumors, Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, World Journal of Dermatology, Advances in Medicine – Gastroenterology, World Journal of Clinical Cases (WJCC), Epigenetic Diagnosis & Therapy, Journal of Gene Therapy and Research, American Journal of Genetics & Genomics (AJGG), Current Pharmacogenomics and and Personalized Medicine, Clinical Oncology and Research Journal, Reports, Chronicles of oncology, Cancer Clinics Journal, Annals of Medical Case Reports, Clinical Oncology and Research Journal Science Repository, Current genomics, Advances in Medicine_ Gastroenterology, International Journal Of Cancer and Therapeutics, Insights in Molecular & Genetic Research, SEJ Oncology and Cancer, Frontiers in neurology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Annals of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology Editor-in-Chief di "World Journal of Medical Genetics" New diagnostic approaches for cancer diagnosis: from the detection of serum tumor markers and the biomolecular detection tumor cells in blood and bone marrow to proteomics. Translational research in Oncology: evaluation of the clinical usefulness of new diagnostic and/or prognostic parameters in Clinical Oncology. molecular evaluation of genes involved in gastrointestinal and breast inherited cancer (i.e., hMLH1, hMSH2, APC, BRCA1, BRAC2, etc.); Molecular evaluation of genomic instability of human cancer, and novel mechanisms of cancer progression. Pharmacogenomic and pharmacogenetic of anticancer, cardiovascular and neurological drugs. Association from human patology and genomic sequence variants (SNPs). Identification of biological identity using genetic forensic tool. Biobanking and biobanking applied sciences Biobanking. Human microbiota From 1991 to 2001 she joined the Department of Oncology and Neurosciences at the University of Chieti as MD Degree. From 2001 to 2002 Researcher at the IRCCS Istituto Regina Elena per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Rome. From 2001 to 2005 Deputy Chief at the Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Regina Elena per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Rome. From 2005 to 2013 he joined the IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, as Responsible of Molecular Diagnosis Section of “Department of Laboratory Medicine and Advanced Biotechnologies”. From 2014 to 2015 full Professor at the San Raffaele Roma Open University, Rome. From 2015 to 2020 collaborator at Oncogenomic Research Center “Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology”, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy. From 2020 to date Associate Professor of Technical Sciences and Laboratory Medicine, Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, Section of Sciences and Technologies of Laboratory Medicine, University of Bari 'Aldo Moro' School of Medicine swimming, spearfishing