Dr. Candela Romano is a pediatrician and physician-scientist whose career bridges clinical care and translational research. She completed her medical training at the National University of La Plata (Argentina), followed by residency training in Pediatrics, where she developed expertise in caring for critically ill newborns. Motivated by both personal and professional experiences, she moved to the United States to further her training and expand her research contributions. At the University of California, Irvine, she served as a Clinical Research Fellow in Pediatrics, collaborating closely with the multidisciplinary Lysosomal Storage Disease team. Her research focuses on rare genetic disorders, including lysosomal storage diseases and VCP-related proteinopathies, with an emphasis on improving early diagnosis and long-term outcomes in children.