In 2002, he proposed to the Rector of the University to create a new Department in the new Institute for Cancer Research funded by a private Foundation in collaboration with the University. The success of this project allowed the constitution of the first department of University of Torino exclusively focused on Oncology.

In 2003, funded a PhD programme in complex systems applied to post genomic biology aimed at the integration between biologists, computer scientists, informatics, physicists.

A third relevant experience was the participation to and the Presidency of the “Evaluation Board” of the University of Torino. He firstly established criteria to evaluate the research activities in Humanity and socio-economical sciences at the University of Torino.

In 2009 he was nominated Scientific Director of FPRC. During this period he coordinated 16 groups (130 people) with a budget of 12000 KEuro.