Dr. Rosa Maria Vitale is a senior researcher at the Biomolecular Chemistry Institute of the National Research Council of Italy (ICB-CNR). Her research activity is centered on computational structural biology, drug discovery of novel leads from natural and synthetic source by in silico screenings, structure-activity relationships determination and molecular simulations of biomolecular systems, with a special interest in GPCRs, receptor ions channels belonging to the TRP family and nuclear receptors.