He is an Associate Professor at the Division of Cellular Transplantation of the Departments of Surgery, Microbiology and Immunology, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami, USA. He directs the Preclinical Cell Processing and Translational Models Program of the Cell Transplant Center at the Diabetes Research Institute, USA. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pavia in Italy.