Prof. Annarosa Arcangeli was born in Pistoia, Italy, in 1956. She graduated in medicine and surgery in 1981, became a specialist in clinical and laboratory hematology in 1984, and became a researcher in experimental pathology in 1990. Since 2012, she has been an ordinary professor of general pathology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Florence. She has extensive experience in research on ion channels and their role in neoplastic transformation. She is among the world’s experts in hERG and its role in cancer. Through several periods of work at the University of Cambridge, she also gained considerable biotechnology experience in the genetic manipulation of mammals to produce genetically modified animals and in the production of monoclonal antibodies through the use of recombinant proteins in E. coli and yeasts.