Ana Checa-Ros is a medical doctor specialising in paediatrics, a lecturer in medicine at CEU Cardenal Herrera University (Valencia, Spain), and an honorary research fellow at Aston University (Birmingham, UK), where she is currently based. Her research interests are focused on the search of non-pharmacological therapies for children with neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders, with particular attention to the anti-inflammatory/antioxidant properties of melatonin beyond its effects on sleep.