Fiorella Altruda is the Director of the Molecular Biotechnology Center and a Full Professor at the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Torino in 1975. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Animal Embryology, University of Geneva, Switzerland, from January to April 1981, a Postdoctoral fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, in 1982, a Visiting Fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, and a Visiting Scientist at Scripps Clinic and Research Laboratory, La Jolla, USA, from July to September 1989.