Prof. Antonella Agodi is a Professor and Director at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies "GF Ingrassia", University of Catania. She completed her MSc studies in Biological Sciences at the University of Catania (1981) and PhD studies in Neurobiology at the University of Catania (1988); she has been awarded Environmental Health award from the Lions Club Augusta (1982) and Young Scientists in Applied Biology award from the Accademia Gioenia di Catania (2019). She has published 248 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her areas of interest include epigenetics, genomics, molecular epidemiology, public health, nutritional epidemiology, healthcare-associated infections, and epidemiology and prevention.