Barbara Canonico is an associate professor at the University of Urbino. She received her Ph.D. in molecular cellular differentiation at the University of Bologna in 2004. She was a member of the Data Standard Committee ISAC, from 2003 to 2007. She obtained a travelling scientific award (2004) at the ISAC Congress in Montpellier. Her research interests include: apoptotic and autophagic pathway; stem cells and tumour stem cells, extracellular vesicles; intercellular communication; adhesion molecules; lysosomal and mitochondria network. She mainly apply flow cytometry and confocal microscopy techniques. She recently approached the fields of optimization of antineoplastic drugs nd new generation drug delivery systems by te evaluation of their biologic effects.