Luigi Terracciano is Full Professor of Anatomic Pathology and since September 1st, 2020, serves as the Head of the Anatomic Pathology Division at Humanitas University Hospital, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Rozzano (Milan), Italy. Till August 2020 has served as the Head of the Molecular Pathology Division and Chair of Experimental Pathology at the Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
After his medical degree, followed by a residency in Anatomic Pathology at University Federico II of Naples, Italy, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physiology in Heidelberg, Germany.
Since 1998, Prof. Terracciano has been a member of the International Liver Study Group, a panel of the most well-regarded liver pathologists in the world. In 2016, he received the Dora Seif Award for his contribution to research on liver cancer.
He has a long-standing research interest in non-neoplastic and neoplastic gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases. In particular, Prof. Terracciano has 30 years of experience in molecular pathology, translational research, and cancer bio-repositories, as well as high-throughput techniques such as tissue microarray (TMA).
After his medical degree, followed by a residency in Anatomic Pathology at University Federico II of Naples, Italy, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physiology in Heidelberg, Germany.