Prof. Gianluigi Zaza graduated in medicine from the University of Bari in 2000. He did his clinical training in Nephrology at the Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, University of Bari (2000-2005). From 2002 to 2005 he has been post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN, USA. In 2010 he holds a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine Therapy from University of Bari with a thesis on genomics applied to mitochondrial activity in chronic kidney disease patients. He has been staff physician: 1) from 07/04/2006 to 05/31/2009 at the Apulia Transplantation Regional Center, Policlinic-University of Bari, Italy; 2) from 06/01/2009 to 10/31/2009 at the Emilia-Romagna Transplantation Regional Center/AIRT Interregional Center, Policlinic S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy; 3) from 11/16/2009 to 07/30/2010 at the CRT Puglia/AIRT; 4) from 1st November 2011 to 30 September 2017 he has been Assistant Professor and from 1st October 2017 to 31 December 2021 he has been Associate Professor at the Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Verona, Italy. From 01/01/2022 he serves as Associate Professor at the Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Advanced Research Center on Kidney Aging (A.R.K.A.), University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy. The scientific activity of Prof. Zaza resulted in several publications in national and international journals (150 articles published in peer-reviewed journals). Moreover, he obtained many national and international awards/honors. Prof. Zaza continues his clinical activities as medical doctor primarily involved in post-renal transplant clinical maintenance follow-up. Additionally, his research interests include pharmacogenomics, transcriptomics and translational medicine.