Roberta Tasso is an associate professor in Applied Biology at the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genova, Italy. She obtained her PhD from the University of Genova, Italy in 2009. She has major expertise in stem/progenitor cell biology, including secretome analysis. She is currently involved in different projects dealing with extracellular vesicles derived from different sources (supernatants, plasma and serum) as liquid biopsy tools in different pathological conditions.