Lucia C. Cosenza (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2949-7191) has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology. Her thesis was entitled 'Cellular and biomolecular technologies for stratification of β-thalassemia patients: applications in theranostics'. She worked as a research fellow (from 2015 to date) at the Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara. Her research areas are gene editing CRISPR/Cas9 for β-thalassemia single point mutations in ErPCs and CD34+ cells, biomolecular study of HbF induction, and screening to identify potential compounds with read-through activity. The Paolo Bianco Award was obtained in June 2016 at the VII° Stem Cell Research along with a membership. From 2016 to date, she is a member of the Stem Cell Research Italy. From 2019 to date, she is a member of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB). Her publications (updated September 2021) are as follows: 32 publications, including 18 articles in peer-reviewed International Journals, and 24 congress abstracts. She is also a subject matter expert in 'Omics And Molecular Diagnostics’ (2018 to date) and ‘Molecular and Recombinant Technologies’ (2020 to date).