Jessica Iorio was born in Prato, Italy, in 1987. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology from the University of Florence, Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in genetics, oncology and clinical medicine from the University of Siena, Italy, in 2019. Since 2019 she has had a post-doc fellowship at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the University of Florence. Her research interests include ion channels and their role in neoplastic transformation.