Luisa Diomede is the Head of the Laboratory of Human Pathology in Model Organisms at the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri. She obtained her PhD. degree in Biochemical Pharmacology in 1991. In the 1987, she spent some months as a visiting scientists at The Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, UK. Her main research topic is the study of human and animal diseases originating from the aberrant folding of proteins. In this context, a major portion of her studies was devoted to the etiopathogenesis and therapy of central and systemic amyloidosis. She has published 107 papers and 3 chapter of books, and her H index is 30 (Scopus).