Daniela Tavian graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Milan in 1991. After obtaining her doctorate at the University of Brescia, she specialized in Biochemistry and clinical chemistry at the same university. She is currently an aggregate professor at the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore (MI), where she also coordinates a research group. Daniela Tavian studies the biochemical-molecular aspects of neutral lipid storage myopathies (NLSD), with the aim of understanding their pathogenetic mechanisms.