Dr. Valentina Maggini is a postdoc researcher in pharmacy/phylogenomics at the University of Florence, Italy. She received her degree cum laude in Biology from the Florence University and her Ph.D. degree in Microbiology and Genetics from Pisa University, Italy, in 2005. She has more than 20 years of academic experience in genetics, pharmacology, and phytomedicine. She has been awarded a Special Training Award by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, World Health Organization, Lyon, France). She won a grant from the Italian Association for Cancer Research for the project STOP Pain—Suitable Treatment for Oncologic Paediatric Pain in 2010. By conducting research in the field of personalized medicine, she has become interested in the role of genomics applied to herbal medicine, starting an exciting collaboration with the Research and Innovation Center in Phytotherapy and Integrated Medicine—CERFIT of Careggi, University Hospital, Florence, Italy. She is actually conducting the research project “Biological and molecular characterization of medicinal plants and their microbiota” in collaboration with the Department of Biology (University of Florence, Italy).