Prof. Paolo Gasparini, MD, specialises in Clinical and Laboratory Hematology and Medical Genetics. Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Trieste, Director of the Complex Structure of Medical Genetics and Director of the Advanced Diagnostics Department at the Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, in Trieste. He has a long experience studying the molecular basis of hereditary diseases and the genetic risk factors of quantitative and complex traits. He is the author of about 500 original publications in national and international journals with an H-index of 94 (Google Scholar). He has worked in Spain, the UK, USA and Qatar. He was recently appointed Representative of European Clinics in the EMA Committee of Advanced Therapies (CAT), where he had already been a national delegate for nine years. Incoming President of the Italian Society of Human Genetics (SIGU).