Prof. Anna Picca is an Associate Professor of Applied Biology at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University, Casamassima, BA, Italy. She received an MSc in Biology at the University of Bari in 2006 and a PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Bioinformatics at the University of Bari (Italy) in 2011. She served as an Exchange PhD Visitor Student in mitochondrial biogenesis at the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, FL, USA. She was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Florida (FL, USA) and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging (Novato, CA, USA). She has served as a research consultant for the Metabolism and Translational Science Core at the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, University of Florida, since 2016. Her research interests include biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, mitochondrial dysfunction, and oxidative stress.