Dr. Paola Dall’ Ara is an Associate Professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan. She holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine (1989, grade 110/110 with honors) and received a Ph.D. in Biotechnologies Applied to Veterinary and Zootechnical Sciences in 1993. She completed her Fellowship post-PhD in the 1994–1995 period. She is also a Researcher at the Microbiology and Immunology Institute (scientific field: infectious diseases in domestic animals). Her main field of interest is the control of core vaccine protection in dogs and cats by means of VacciCheck, other in-clinic tests, and gold standard tests, which are validated and studied using different samples (blood, colostrum, milk, and amniotic fluid) of different patient categories (dogs/cats; owned/stray pets; young/adult/old pets; healthy/ill patients).