He has a long standing research interest in non-neoplastic and neoplastic gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases. In particular, Prof. Terracciano has 30 years of experience in molecular pathology, translational research and cancer bio-repositories, as well as high-throughput techniques such as tissue microarray, a tool developed in his laboratory. His expertise is demonstrated by numerous publications focusing on the identification of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in various gastrointestinal and hepatic neoplastic diseases. Within his Division of Molecular Pathology in Basel, some 1800 next generation sequencing (NGS) analyses of various neoplasia from patients from University Hospital Basel and, more frequently, from other hospitals in Switzerland, have been performed annually.