Antonio La Marca is  Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Mother, Children and Adults of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
He is the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the Policlinico Universitario of Modena and Director of the Residency school in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Professor La Marca’s research interests include ovarian reserve and endocrinology, pharmacological manipulation of ovarian activity, including the prediction of ovarian response in IVF, the personalization of ovarian stimulation protocols, the physiological significance of anti-Müllerian hormone and antral follicle count (including their measurement and clinical utility), and conventional and alternative strategies for ovarian stimulation. He has published extensively in these fields, being recognized as author or co-author of more than 257 peer-reviewed articles (by Scopus) and of note he is the first Author in about 35% of the articles, and is currently principal investigator in several phase 3 and 4 trials and recipient of several competitively assigned national and international grants; his current h -index is 57, with more than 13,600 citations (Scopus).  The preclinical and clinical research led to 6 patents of which La Marca is the inventor.
He is Section Editor of the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Frontiers of Endocrinology, Gynecological Endocrinology and Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Prof La Marca is involved as Principal Investigator (PI) in ministerial research programs awarded on a competitive basis and he is PI of several Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs). He participates or has participated in numerous national or international multicenter research projects and there are at least thirty different groups with whom he has collaborated or still collaborates. He has been called to be part of several  international commissions for the evaluation of research projects of European countries and for the academic progression of university professors.