Melania Manco is a full professor of Endocrinology and full professor of Paediatrics. She has been a Senior Scientist since January 2008 at the Scientific Directorate of the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. After graduating in Medicine, she was clinical fellow in 1998 at the Dept. of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Injury Science, NJUMD, Newark, USA. In 2000, she obtained a Master's degree in the field of Obesity, a Specialization degree in Endocrinology and Diabetology in 2002, and a PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism in 2005. She has several years of clinical and research experience in the field of paediatric obesity, insulin resistance, and the prediction of cardiovascular disease. She is  member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the American Nutrition Association (ANA) and associate editor of the ANA Journal. In 2019, she was recognized as one of the top Italian female scientists, and in the last decade, she has served as the principal investigator of a number of medium- and large-sized projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health and by the EC.