Isabella Savini received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1989. She is currently working as an Associate Professor of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She is  an Advisory Board member of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU) and a member of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SIB). Her current research focuses on the metabolism of vitamin C in normal and tumor cells.