1998: Medicine (magna cum laude) at the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
December 2008–Present: Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences).
Scientific research topics: autoimmune liver diseases, celiac disease, autoimmune enteropathy, autoantibodies, primary liver cancer: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma and HCV- and HBV-related chronic hepatitis.
Total number of original papers published in peer-reviewed international journals: 103 (June 2020).
Granito acts as a peer-reviewer for several international journals (The Lancet Oncology, Hepatology, Gut, BMC Medicine, American Journal of Transplantation, Clinical Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Pathology, Journal of Clinical Immunology, Frontiers in Immunology, Immunology Letters, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, Digestive and Liver Disease, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, Drugs and Aging), as reported in the Publons database (https://publons.com/researcher/1185450/alessandro-granito/).