Monica Canepari Ph.D. Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Pavia. Her research activity is focused on contractile and biochemical parameters of muscle function and on the study of actomyosin interaction and the molecular determinants of the functional differences among skeletal myosin isoforms. Current research interest is in the study of the intracellular signals responsible for maintaining muscle mass under conditions of muscular atrophy. She is a member of the Italian Physiological Society and of the Interuniversity Institute of Myology. She has participated in the Programs of Relevant National Interest since 2000; European Community (PENAM 2001-2004; Better Ageing 2002-2005, FP7-HEALTH-2007-B); Italian Space Agency (PROGETTO OSMA 2006-2009); Telethon Onlus (2007-2009), Fondazione Cariplo (2003, 2006, 2010); Ordinary Targeted Research Projects RF-2011-02350228 (2011-2012) "Steroid myopathy: pathogenesis and prevention” and Blue Sky Research, (Call for University Research Found, BSR-15214 (2017-2019) as Principal Investigator.