Dr. Laura Rizzi is a Researcher at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca. (RtdA, 2019). She graduated in 2008 in Biology and in 2013 she obtained a Ph.D. in Biomedical Techology. She has been performing preclinical research with a postdoctoral position in the Laboratory of Pharmacology. From academic year 2009/2010 she has been Tutor of Pharmacology at the Medical School of the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her current research interests are the study of the mechanisms involved in the endocrine and extraendocrine activities of the growth hormone secretagogues in a model of cachexia and obesity and protective action in a model of ARDS. Other research lines focus on gender medicine and nutraceutics, in particula,r the role of nutrition in the pathogenesis and evolution of neurodegenerative disease. She is a member of the Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF) and she won an award with best poster for “Le basi farmacologiche dei nutraceutici”.