Dr Mauro Cives works as Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari, Italy. He gained his MD degree and specialization degree in Medical Oncology at the University of Bari. From 2013 to 2016 Dr Cives worked as Research Associate within the Neuroendocrine Program of the Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa (FL, USA). Dr Cives’ work focuses on the preclinical and clinical evaluation of innovative treatments for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). In 2017, Dr Cives was awarded by the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) for the project “CAR-T cells for GEP-NETs”. Dr Cives is co-author of over 30 peer-reviewed papers.