**Donatella Degl'Innocenti**

Prof. Donatella Degl'Innocenti obtained a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and she has been an Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences "Mario Serio" (University of Florence, Italy) since 2001. During her scientific career, she built national and international scientific collaborations.

She is an active researcher and the leader of her department laboratory (https://www.sbsc. unifi.it/vp-223-gruppo-degl-innocenti.html). She has strong, independent research experience, with an impact in the field, as demonstrated by several publications as a senior author in international, peer-reviewed journals. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Interuniversity Center of Marine Biology and Applied Ecology (CIBM) of Livorno (Italy).

In recent years, she has focused her research on the health role of natural and marine compounds. She studied the amyloid aggregation process and potential inhibitory mechanisms of natural compounds and the extract of Mediterranean red seaweed.

Prof. Degl'Innocenti has also studied the biological properties of extracts obtained from the leaves of the *Posidonia oceanica* (L.) Delile marine plant, focusing on these extracts' role in pathophysiological cellular processes, such as inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as on cancer cell migration and protein glycation processes.
