Paolo Vezzoni was born in Milan, 14th November 1950. After completing high school at the Istituto Salesiano Sant’A mbrogio in Milan, he obtained a medical degree at the State University of Milan in 1974. He received a specialization in Endocrinology in 1977 and in Oncology in 1980. After a period at the National Cancer Institute of Milan, from 1986 to the present he has worked at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies of the National Research Council (CNR), in the field of human genetics. He was the Deputy Director of the Human Genome Project, coordinated by Renato Dulbecco. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Ethical Committee of the IRCCS “Medea”. Since 2007 he has been the Chief of the “Medical Biotechnologies” Unit at the Humanitas Clinical Institute.

He has authored more than 120 scientific papers. He is the author of four books: “Biotecnologie della vita quotidiana” (Biotechnologies of everyday life), Laterza, 2000 (con A. Bazzi, winner of the 2003 Serono Prize for scientific dissemination ); “ Si può clonare un essere umano” (Can we clone a human?), Laterza, 2003; “Intersezioni. Questioni biologiche di rilevanza filosofica”, (Intersections. Biological questions of philosophical relevance) McGrawHill, 2000; and “Il futuro e il passato dell’uomo”, (The future and past of Man),Bruno Mondadori, 2006. For “Le Scienze” (the Italian version of Scientific American) he was the editor, together with Renato Dulbecco, of a monography “The Human Genome Project”, Le Scienze, Quaderni n. 100 D, 1998.