Dr. Giuseppina Catanzaro is a Medical Doctor and a Research Fellow at the Department of Experimental Medicine in Sapienza University of Rome. She received her PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Teramo and pursued her postdoctoral studies in the field of Biochemistry in the laboratory of Prof. Maccarrone. She joined a postdoc in the Bracco Research Center, where she was in charge of the biological part of a vast multidisciplinary research project involving cancer cell metabolism, collaborating with the Albeda Research Group in Copenhagen (Denmark) to study the metabolic activity of several cancer cells. Then, she moved to Sapienza University, where she has been involved in projects focused on the molecular and clinical aspects of cancers. Her activity is especially concentrated on defining the role of non-coding RNAs as key molecules in cancer and metabolic diseases, both for their biological functions and for their role as diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers. She is the author of more than 40 original peer-reviewed papers and in recent years has contributed to increasing the knowledge about the role of microRNAs, with a special focus on pediatric neuro-oncology. She has won many prestigious awards for her research, such as the Ricerche Oncologiche di Base award in 2018 and 2022, and a special mention for the best video for EXPO 2020 Dubai for the call “Beyond borders: La conoscenza unisce le persone” sponsored by Fondazione Bracco.