Dr. Novelli received his Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from the University of Milan, Italy in 2009. During her last year of Ph.D. she joined the lab of Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, where she continued the postdoc. In 2010 Dr. Novelli joined the genetic program on Cardiac Sudden Death at NYU, Langone Medical Center, working on the identification of the genetic causes responsible for cardiac arrhythmias. In 2012, she moved to Pavia at Fondazione Maugeri and then at Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart), in Rome where she continued her projects focused on the identification and interpretation of rare variants responsible for inherited cardiac conditions. Dr. Novelli is a Member of the Clingen Cardiovascular Working group, working as Expert Member in the Channelopathy subgroup.