He provided critical contributions to the definition of the consensus sequences that are recognized by individual protein kinases, to the understanding of the biological functions of acidophilic protein kinases and to the identification of the atypical kinase that is responsible for the generation of the phospho-secretome. Presently he is an associated member of the CNR Institute of Neurochemistry, being responsible for a research project funded by AIRC He has published 400 papers which received 25912 citations , with a H-index 84 (Google scholar November 2020).