**About the Editors**

#### **Alessandra Pulliero**

Alessandra Pulliero graduated with a BSc in Biology, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Padua, Italy. She received her doctorate in Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Padua Italy (2003–2006).

In 2001 she became Research fellow, for a research project funded by the MIUR entitled "Cross-talk between endoplasmic/sarcoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane: interactions and functional relationships" at the University of Padua, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Padua, Italy.

In 2007 she became Post Doc Researcher at the Dept. of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Italy, for a research project (PRIN) entitled "Evaluation of exposure and individual susceptibility in subjects involved in the manipulation of antiblastic chemotherapy".

In 2008 she became Research assistant for a project on MicroRNA microarray and qPCR analyses and prevention of lung cancer. Setting up of microarray delivery systems. Analyzing microarray data. Involved in intracellular microRNA delivery by lipid nanoparticles. RNA interference and culture cells experiment at the Department of Health Sciences.

From 2013–2018 she was Research assistant at the University of Genoa on the project entitled "Development of preventive strategies of lung cancer by transfection with miRNA and modulation of DICER protein".

In 2017, Qualification of Associate in general and applied hygiene.

#### **Alberto Izzotti**

Prof. Izzotti has managed several research projects devoted to: (a) developing drugs for cancer prevention; (b) developing, in preclinical models, molecular tools applicable in the clinic; (c) shedding light on cancer ethio-pathogenesis; and (d) evaluating intermediate molecular biomarkers in clinical trials. Over the last ten years, he has mainly been involved in personalized medicine and postgenomic analyses using microarrays for evaluating the expression of genes and proteins. Since 2008, the research activity of Prof. Izzotti has been devoted to the study of microRNA, cancer chemopreventive agents, and gene transfer methods. Prof. Izzotti has managed several Grants for National and International projects.
