Lucia Altucci is a Full Professor of General Pathology at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and a delegate of the Rector for research. She previously worked as an Associate Professor of General Pathology at the Second University of Naples. She holds an MD-Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pathology from the University of Naples “Federico II”, a medical specialization in Oncology, and a Post-Doc from IGBMC, Strasbourg, France. Her research interests focus on innovative therapeutic strategies against human diseases such as cancer, (epi)drug discovery and development, and the identification of pathogenesis of diseases, with a focus on cancer (epi)genome alterations.