Giulia M. Stella graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2001. She obtained her M.D. European Qualification in 2002 and specialized in Respiratory System Diseases. She completed her Ph.D. in Pharmacological Sciences (University of Pavia Medical School) and then her Master’s degree in Molecular Oncology (University of Turin Medical School) in 2011. She is now working as a Clinical Research Assistant within the Pulmonology/Thoracic Oncology Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia. She also works as an Assistant Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Pavia. She has expertise in numerous laboratory techniques, including DNA cloning, sequencing, PCR, mammalian cell culture, transient and stable transfection, single-cell dilution, use of inducible promoters, virus production and cellular transduction, Western immunoblotting, and protein kinase assays. In addition, she has clinical expertise in invasive procedures (bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, lymph node biopsy, thoracentesis, and paracentesis) and lung cancer management.