Prof. Maurizio Ferrari is the Past President of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC). He is a retired Full Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy and currently is the Chief Medical Officer of Synlab Italia.

Before now, he served in several capacities within the IFCC as Chairman of Committee on Clinical Molecular Biology Curriculum of IFCC (2002-2007) and member of the Education and Management Division of IFCC (2008-2011). He was the Chairman of Education and Management Division of IFCC (2012-2014), member of IFCC Task Force on Pharmacogenetics and an advisor to the CLSI Committee on Molecular Methods.

He was IFCC President (2015-2017 and 2019-2020). He is Chairman of Award Committee of IFCC (2018 at present) and Consultant of Emerging Technology Division of IFCC (2019 at present).

He was also President of the European Society of Predictive Medicine.

He received in 2004, the IFCC-Abbort Award for significant contributions in Molecular Diagnostics, the Honorary  membership of the Hungarian Society of Laboratory Diagnostics (2014), the Honorary Diploma of “Societas Medicorum Bohemorum J.E Purkyne” (2015), the Jendrassik L. Award of Societas Diagnostica Laboratorialis Clinicalis Hungarica (2016)and SIBioC Award for Internalization (2019).

He has had a degree in Medicine at the Milan University and specialized in Paediatrics, Haematology and Medical Genetics. He was a Post-Doctoral Student at Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, Paris and Honorary Registrar in Haematology at the UCH, London. He was Scientific Coordinator of Clinical Research, IRCCSH San Raffaele, Milan (1996-1999), former Dean of Master’s Degree in Molecular and Cellular Medical Biotechnology (2008-2017). He is the past Lead of the Clinical Molecular Laboratory and the Genomic Unit for the Diagnosis of Human Pathologies in the Division of Genetics and Cell Biology at IRCCS San Raffaele, Milan.

His scientific interests are mainly on molecular diagnostic methods, nucleic acid circulating in maternal plasma, molecular studies of several genetic pathologies. He is author of more than 400 peer reviewed journals and was invited as lecturer at more than 300 international congresses.