Giuseppe Viale, MD, FRCPath, graduated from the University of Milan in 1976. He became a specialist in pathology in 1979, and is now full professor of Pathology and Director of the Post-graduate Medical School in Pathology at the University of Milan School of Medicine. He has been director of the Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan since 1994 and deputy Scientific Director of the Institute in 2010-14.