Giada Mondanelli is a researcher at the Section of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia. After graduating with honors in Drug Chemistry and Technology (2012), she was trained for 5 months at the drug-discovery company TES Pharma. In 2015, she obtained a PhD degree in Biology and Experimental Medicine, and during the PhD program, she joined the group of Prof Von Herrath (La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, US) for a 5-month internship. She is the author of 50 peer-reviewed articles (2014-2024), H index 23, and 1442 citations (by Scopus). She is a member of SIF (Italian Society of Pharmacology) and SIICA (Italian Society of Immunology, Clinical Immunology, and Allergology). Her research activities are oriented in the field of immunopharmacological targets for chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, and, more recently, cancer. She contributed as Principal Investigator to two national projects and as a collaborator in several international research projects. Her achievements have also been recognized by several prizes, including the  "LaboSpace" award (2017), the SIF-Farmindustria award (2019), "Paolo Preziosi" Research Award (2021), the Prix Galien Research Award Italia (2021), the M. Felli Award (2022) and the EWMD-TIWS award (2022).