Pediatric Rheumatologists, working at “G. Gaslini” Institute for Children in Genoa, Italy. His main scientific interests involve the study of the pathogenic mechanisms of the rheumatic conditions in children and the clinical and pathogenic characterization of the monogenic autoinflammatory diseases.  He is author of 264 full-papers on international journals (total IF 1570, H-index 56), of many book chapters (i.e. “The Immune System and the Inflammatory Response” in the Textbook of Pediatric Rheumatology; JT Cassidy et al. eds; 5th, 6th and 7th Edition). He is the Editor of the book “Familial Mediterranean Fever” (Springer).     

He received the 1998 and 1999 Pediatric Rheumatology Abstract Awards at the 62nd and 63rd  Congress of the American College of Rheumatology and  the Kourir Award 13th Congress of Pediatric Rheumatology European Society, Amsterdam, June 2006

From July 2008 he is the  Principal Investigator of the “Eurofever” Project (UE – Executive Agency for Health and Consumers; www.printo/eurofever). From May 2016 is the Principal Investigator of the E-rare project INSAID (E-Rare 2015).

He is the past-Chairman of the Working Party for Autoinflammatory diseases of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PRES). 

From 2017 is the President of the International Society of Autoinflammatory diseases (ISSAID)