Caterina A. M. La Porta is professor of general pathology, group leader of the Oncolab Laboratory (www.oncolab.it) of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and member of the steering committee of the Center for Complexity and Biosystems (www.complexitybiosistems.it) of the Innovation For Well-Being And Environment Center and of the Center for Molecular Chemio-prevention (CMCP) of chronic degenerative diseases at the University of Milan. Prof. La Porta is included in the list of the World’s Top 2% Cited Scientists 2023 by Stanford University. She spent many periods abroad collaborating with many international universities and research institutes including MIT, Cornell University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Aalto University and LMU In Germany. In 2017, she was among the “100 experts” from top women scientists in Italy (https://100esperte.it/). She was trained as a general pathologist and cell biologist and has spent most of her career trying to understand basic phenomena in biological sciences. In the last fifteen years, she has shifted her interests to quantitative biology and digital medicine. She studied the emergent properties of cancer by developing algorithms able to quantitatively determine the dynamics of the complex regulatory networks of cells (Ariadne, Stella). She has published more than 200 publications contributing to the fields of digital medicine, cancer plasticity, computational biology, system biology, neuroscience, and biophysics.