Ruggero De Maria obtained his M.D. at the University of Catania (1989) and completed his residence training in endocrinology at the University of Palermo (1994). Since 2013, Professor De Maria has served as the President of Alliance Against Cancer, the Italian network of comprehensive cancer centers. Moreover, since 2016 Professor De Maria has been the Director of the Institute of General Pathology at the Catholic University of Rome and President of the Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine in Turin, Italy.
