Andrea Lenzi, 72, is the new President of the National Research Council (CNR), the largest public research body previously headed by Maria Chiara Carrozza. The decree of appointment was signed by University and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini. Born in Bologna on April 20, 1953, Lenzi has lived in Rome since 1957 and graduated in medicine from Sapienza University in 1977. Also at Sapienza he specialized in Endocrinology in 1980, at the University of Pisa in Andrology in 1983, and in Human Reproductive Pathophysiology and Population Education at the University Federico II of Naples in 1986. He also worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and then at the Burn Hall Clinic in Cambridge and has authored about a thousand scientific publications. He has held numerous positions in public research, most recently as chairman of the National Committee for Biosafety, Biotechnology and Life Sciences of the Prime Minister's Office.