Alessia Finotti is an Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Department of Ferrara University (Italy). She has worked at Ferrara University since 2005 (from 2005 to 2012 in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and, currently, in the Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology). She is also Professor of Cellular and Molecular Therapies (with a degree in Biotechnologies and Pharmacy) at Ferrara University. She is the author of more than 130 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals. As Vice Director of the Center "Chiara Gemmo and Elio Zago" for research on thalassemia, her research activites are focused on the molecular basis of human cancer and hereditary diseases, gene therapy, pharmaceutical biology, and pharmacogenomics.