Maria Teresa is a neuroscientist with over 10-year international research experience and a unique expertise in gender medicine. After a master in Pharmacy (University of Cagliari, Italy) and a stage at the Center of Excellence for Drug Discovery of GlaxoSmith&Kline (Harlow, England), she obtained a PhD in Pharmacology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) with a thesis on the role of inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease. In 2011 she joined the Nitsch’s lab (University of Zurich, Switzerland) as postdoc and group leader, to further study the role of the immune system in Alzheimer’s using deep-immunophenotyping techniques. In 2016 Maria Teresa co-founded the non-profit organization ‘Women’s Brain Project’, which studies sex and gender determinants to brain and mental health as gateway to precision medicine (www.womensbrainproject.com). Her work as WBP Chief Scientific Officer led to several scientific publications, policy papers, books and book chapters, TED-x talks and coverage by the national and the international press. Maria Teresa is also an external teacher at the Medical University of Vienna (Austria), faculty member of the Certificate for Advance studies on gender medicine at University of Zurich and member of the Advisory Board of the Connors Center at the Women’s and Brigham’s Hospital in Boston. In 2021, with Dr Santuccione, she co-authored the book ‘Una bambina senza testa’ (Edizioni Mondo Nuovo).