**Marilisa Leone**

Marilisa Leone earned a Master Degree in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) in 1999 and a PhD in Chemical Sciences (Subject: protein NMR) in 2003 from the University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy. She was mostly trained in the field of NMR-based drug discovery at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in San Diego (USA) (2002–2003 and 2005–2009). In 2006, she was awarded the ITALFARMACO PRIZE for young scientists from the Italian Chemical Society.

In 2009, she was recruited as a permanent researcher by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IBB). She is, to date, the co-author of more than 75 articles on international peer-reviewed journals (Scopus H-index: 24). Her scientific interests are protein/peptide structure and dynamics, protein/protein and protein/ligand (i.e., peptide and small molecules) interactions, and drug discovery, largely centered on cancer-relevant targets.
