Prof. Gianluca Ianiro

Gianluca Ianiro received his medical degree in 2009 summa cum laude at the Catholic University of Rome. He trained in gastroenterology at the same University. He is currently gastroenterologist at the Digestive Disease Center of the Fondazione A. Gemelli IRCCS and adjunt professor in gastroenterology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy.

He has since gone on to establish himself as a key clinical and translational investigator focusing mainly in the field of intestinal microbiota with more than 180  peer reviewed publications including some of the best referral journals in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, including NEJM, Nature Medicine, Lancet Infectious Disease, Gastroenterology, Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gut, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nature Communications, Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, etc.), and has received several research grants in support of his innovative research. He was the secretary or the leader of several international consensus conferences on fecal microbiota transplantation. He was in the Young Talent Group and in the Research Committee, of the UEG (United European Gastroenterology), and has been awarded as UEG Rising Star in 2020. His current research is focused mainly on disentangling the rules of donor microbiome engraftment and on investigating FMT in other indications beyond C. difficile.