**About the Editor**

#### **Marcello Ciaccio**

Marcello Ciaccio is a full professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and is the dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Palermo. He is a director of the Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Molecular Medicine, and Laboratory Medicine within the Department of Biomedicine, Neurosciences, and Advanced Diagnostics at the University of Palermo. He is also the director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine—A.O.U.P. Palermo "P. Giaccone". He has been the chair of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC). He is part of the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals, and he serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals. He is the author of more than 400 scientific publications in national and international journals.
