Carlo Santuccione (23 October 1947 – 4 March 2017) was an Italian sports doctor who was also known as Ali the Chemist.
Santuccione worked with Francesco Conconi at the University of Ferrara in Italy at the Centro Studi Biomedici Applicati allo Sport or Biomedical Research Institute.
During the 1990s, Santuccione worked with Conconi, the man that is said to have introduced Erythropoietin or EPO to the sport of cycling.
In 2004, the large scale operation Oil for Drugs began in 29 Italian provinces against a doping network that Santuccione was suspected to have headed.
[3][4] Riccardo Riccò who finished second in the 2008 Giro d'Italia and tested positive for a form of third generation EPO during the 2008 Tour de France named Santuccione as his supplier of the drug.