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Riccardo De Carlis is a leading figure in minimally invasive hepatobiliary and transplant surgery, with a research focus on laparoscopic and robotic approaches for liver resection and living-donor nephrectomy. His work has been instrumental in demonstrating the safety and efficacy of these advanced techniques, particularly for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and kidney transplantation. A systematic review on laparoscopic HCC resection (2018, 27 citations) helped consolidate evidence of its superiority over open surgery in perioperative outcomes. De Carlis has also been at the forefront of comparing robotic and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, co-authoring a bicentric study (2023, 23 citations) that analyzed learning curves and surgical outcomes from two high-volume European centers. He contributed to the Italian “I Go MILS” registry (2023, 12 citations), a key tool for disseminating and characterizing minimally invasive liver surgery nationwide. His recent multicenter analysis of 647 patients (2025, 6 citations) provides robust propensity-score matched evidence on robotic versus laparoscopic HCC resection. Through these contributions, De Carlis has advanced the adoption of robotic surgery in transplantation and oncology, shaping best practices and improving patient outcomes.