Prior to that he worked at Lycera, where he led target discovery, target validation, screening platforms development, preclinical drug discovery, biomarker discovery and translational medicine. Luigi’s work for the last 20 years has focused on the innate immune system. Based on his collection of highly cited papers, in 2015 Thompson Reuters selected him as one of World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in the field of Immunology (top 100 scientist worldwide).