Professor Negro obtained his MD degree at the University of Torino, Italy, in 1982. He then received research training at the University of Georgetown, Rockville, MD, where he became Assistant Professor in 1989, and then at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD. He is Emeritus Professor at the Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
Major research interests include mechanisms and clinical impact of lipid and glucose metabolic alterations induced by the hepatitis C virus, and has participated in several clinical trials of treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis C.