Prof. Dr. Serafina Perrone currently works as a Professor of Pediatrics at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, and a Director of the Neonatology Complex Structure (Department with integrated maternal and child activities), University of Parma, Parma, Italy. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery, with honors, from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy in July 1993. Later, she specialized, with honors, in pediatrics general and specialist, specializing in neonatology and neonatal pathology and, in 1998, won the competition for a Ph.D. position completed with merit. She has participated in research projects of significant national interest and admitted to funding from the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research. She has been awarded prizes by international scientific societies, including the European Society for Pediatric Research and the Union of European Neonatal and Perinatal Societies. Her research activity has focused on deepening knowledge regarding the development of new strategies for the prevention and treatment of perinatal brain damage—as well as the cause and pathogenesis of hypoxic-ischemic damage in the fetus and newborn and identification of new biomarkers of organ damage.