Maria Morello, Ph.D., is a full-time senior researcher and adjunct professor at the Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. She also performs hospital care activities at the University Hospital of Tor Vergata, Rome (PTV)-Clinical Biochemistry section. In 1991, she graduated (cum Laude) in Biological Science at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in collaboration with CNR, elaborating a thesis entitled “Distribution of Nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor and acetylcholine transferase enzyme (ChAT) levels in the central nervous system of stressed rodents”. In recent years, her research activities have been focused mainly on the study of biochemical markers in neurodegenerative diseases as well as cytokines and vitamins in autoimmune diseases and the evaluation of cytokine and inflammatory markers in COVID. She is a member of several national and international scientific organizations and societies: Italian Association of Neuropathology, Italian Association of Electron Microscopy, SIMEL, Italian Association, Laboratory Medicine, SiBioc Italian Association, Laboratory Medicine, and SIES Italian Society of Haematology.