Giuseppe Lippi was born in Padova (Italy) on October 4th, 1967. He has taken the degree in Medicine in 1992 and the specialization in Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine in 1996. He currently serves as Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Verona (Italy) and Director of the Clinical Chemistry and Haematology laboratories of the University Hospital of Verona (Italy). He has published more than 1500 articles in peer-reviewed journals, his total Impact Factor is over 5500 and the Hirsch Index (H-index) is 80. He has participated to more than 500 national and international congresses and has given more than 250 lectures to national and international meetings.

In 2017 he has been appointed as Secretary of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM). He has been awarded with the 2014 Management Sciences and Patient Safety Division Award of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) for outstanding contributions in the field of patient safety in the clinical laboratory/healthcare industry, and with the 2015 Outstanding Speaker Award by the AACC.

He has also received research grants from the European Community and from Regional Heath Care Services. Giuseppe Lippi is Editor in Chief of “Annals of Translational Medicine” and “Journal of Laboratory and Precision Medicine” and also serves as Associate Editor of the journals “Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine”, “Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis” and “Diagnosis”, is National Representative of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (SIBioC) and member of the European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Working Group on Preanalytical Variability (WG-PRE).

The main fields of research include pre-analytical variability, analytical and clinical validation of biomarkers, proteomics, diagnostics of the acute coronary syndrome, metabolism of lipoproteins and relevant assay methods, frailty, diagnosis and management of disorders of hemostasis.