Dr. Ylenia Della Rocca is researcher technologist at the Department of Innovative technologies in medicine & dentistry of the University “G. D’annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara (Chieti, Italy). After graduating in biotechnology with 110/110 cum laude at the University of L'Aquila, in 2020 she graduated in Medical Biotechnology at the same university with 110/110 cum laude and academic praise, with an experimental thesis at the National Research Center about polymorphisms and haplotypes of the 3’UTR region of the HLA-G gene in kidney transplantation. In April 2024 she completed her PhD studies in “Innovative technologies in clinical medicine & dentistry” (University “G. D’annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara) on a thesis about constitution of a new iPS cell line after a research period at the University of Barcelona. She was speaker in different conferences and has been awarded: National Prize “Ippocrate and sport”; first classified for the PNI 2022; Naming Prize 2022 by Neuromed-IRCCS. She recently led the Projects PNRR vitality ECS00000041, and PRIN 2022 MAOBI- MESCS-UNION. She has published 22 papers in various journals, and serves as a full member for “ITALIAN SOCIETY OF ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY” and for “SIGMA Xi, THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HONOR SOCIETY”. She is teaching assistant of Istology and biomaterials valutations in biomedical engineering (University “G. D’annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara). Her research areas include: stem cells, regenerative medicine, 3D cell cultures, epigenetics.