Maria Paola Paronetto has been the Associate Professor of Applied Biology at the Department of Exercise, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico” since 2015. She earned her PhD in Medical Embryology at Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata in 2006. Her research aims to study the regulation of RNA processing by RNA binding proteins (RBPs), whose activity is modulated by signal transduction mechanisms and cellular differentiation programs and is often dysregulated in pathologies such as neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer. She has authored or co-authored more than 70 technical journal papers and conference presentations with total citations of 3614 and an h-index of 35(Google Scholar). Her main interests are RNA metabolism, alternative splicing, molecular oncology, Ewing sarcoma.