Dr. Marco Silano is currently Research Director, Director of the Department of Cardiovascular and Endocrine-metabolic Diseases and Aging, and Acting Director of the National center of Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. He graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome and specialized in Pediatrics at the University of Milan. He has been serving as Coordinator of the Scientific Board of the Italian Celiac Patients Association (AIC). He is Member of the National Committee for Food Safety and Nutrition and of the Working Group for Food Security at the Italian Ministry of Health.