Prof. Maria Rosalia Pasca is a full professor in microbiology at the University of Pavia. She earned a Ph.D. in genetics and molecular evolution at the University of Bari, Italy, in 2002. She was a post-doc researcher from April 2002 to September 2006. She was a researcher in microbiology from October 2006 to February 2015 at the University of Pavia. She has been an associate professor in microbiology from March 2015 to March 2021. Since March 2021, she has been a full professor. She is a partner in the project “Deciphering host-pathogen interactions to eradicate intracellular mycobacteria pathogens: key drivers to design new precision nanomedicine tools” funded by PRIN 2020. She is the Head of UNIPV Unit in the Project “ERA4TB” funded by EC. She was the principal investigator in three projects (new weapons against Mycobacterium abscessus and other nontuberculous mycobacteria) funded by the Fondazione Italiana Ricerca Fibrosi Cistica. Her main research activities are (1) searching for new antitubercular drugs and novel targets and (2) developing new weapons against Mycobacterium abscessus and other nontuberculous Mycobacteria.