Prof. Gianluca Tell is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the School of Medicine-University of Udine (UNIUD), Italy. He obtained his degree in Biology, 110/110 cum laude, from the University of Trieste-Italy. From 1994 to 1999 he acted as Research Assistant at the Department of Biomedical Scicences and Technologies-University of Udine. In 1996 he was a visiting scientist at the NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.