Laura Calderan is a professor of human anatomy at the Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. She graduated from pharmaceutical chemistry and technology at the University of Padua. She obtained the title of Ph.D. at the laboratory of experimental magnetic resonance imaging at the University of Verona and carried out research as Senior Scientist at the research center Glaxo Smith Kline. She is an assistant professor by 2006 and an associate professor by 2021 at the University of Verona. Her research interests include in vivo oncological experimental models (characterization of in vivo staging of the pathology and pharmacological approaches with a diagnostic and/or therapeutic scope), in vivo experimental models of biocompatibility assessment of compounds for diagnostic and/or therapeutic use, dynamic organ culture systems; in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro multimodal imaging. Her scientific skills include Nanotechnologies applied to the biomedical field (in vivo biodistribution, kinetics of short or long time course for evaluation of tissue accumulation and damage), Oncology (glioblastoma and colon carcinoma models) and Neuroscience (experimental models of substance addiction, cerebral plasticity).