Massimo Locati is Associate Professor in Pathology and Immunology and chief of the Laboratory of Leukocyte Biology at the Department of Translational Medicine of the University of Milan Faculty of Medicine, located in the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Milan. In the past he has contributed to the identification of new chemokines and chemokine receptors, to the definition of chemokine receptors signalling and its role in HIV-1 infection, to the analysis of the biological role of chemokines in human and experimental pathology, with particular attention to their regulation during inflammatory responses. Present interests are represented by the identification and biological characterization of chemokine decoy receptors, the study of phagocyte activation processes by means of transcriptional profile analysis, and the role of microRNA in inflammation.