Prof. Giancarlo Avallone graduated in veterinary medicine in 2004 at the University of Milan, where he attended a combined PhD/Residency program. In 2009 he passed the ECVP certification exam. He worked as a post-doc fellow at the University of Milan from 2007 to 2011 and at the University of Bologna until 2015. From 2015 and 2018 he was senior lecturer and since 2018 Associate Professor at the same institution, where he is director of the ECVP residency program. From 2015 to 2019 he was component and in 2020 chair of the ECVP examination committee. From 2021 to 2023 he has been is councilor of the ECVP. His major line of research is oncological pathology of domestic animals with special focus on tumors of soft tissues and grading systems. He is author of several papers in indexed journals and of the last classifications of tumors soft tissue and tumors of bone.