Prof. Elisabetta Trabetti is an associate professor at the Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. She obtained her B.Sc. in biology from the University of Padova and her Ph.D. in forensic toxicology at the University of Verona. In 1995, she carried out research activities as a research fellow in molecular biology laboratories at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA. She served as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Verona from 1999 to 2014 and became an associate professor in 2014. Her research activities mainly focus on genetic susceptibility to complex diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, asthma and autism, through candidate gene, genome-wide and differential gene expression analyses, as well as NGS techniques. She is also a member of the Italian Society of Human Genetics (SIGU) and the Italian Society of Biology and Genetics (AIBG).