Andrea Cossarizza is currently Professor of Immunology at the Modena and Reggio Emilia university School of Medicine. He received his MD from the University of Padua, and PhD from the Universities of Modena and Bologna. His professional experience includes: 1986-1988 Fellow, Chair of Immunology, Modena University; 1991-pres Responsible, Flow Cytometry Unit, Chair Immunol.; 1996-pres Responsible, Research Unit on HIV, Department Infect. Dis., Modena; Chairman session "Cell Proliferation", I World Congress for Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine, Orlando, 1992; Chairman session "Neuroimmunoendocrinology", 39th National Congress of the Italian Society of Geriatrics, Florence, 1994; Member of: Int. Soc. for Analytical Cytology, Ital. Immunol. Society; Referee of Int. Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) 1994-1998; Referee for AIDS, FEBS Lett., Exp. Cell Res., Immunology Lett., Aging - Clin. Exp. Res, J. Endocrinol. Invest. Guest Editor of an issue of International Reviews of Immunology. He has published aproximately 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited 3 books.