Dr. Maria Garofalo obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology in 2015 with a thesis entitled “Study of gene expression regulation in Food Addiction” carried out at the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of the University of Teramo. In 2018, she obtained her Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics (University of Pavia) with a thesis entitled “Whole transcriptome analysis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients” carried out at the Genomic and post Genomic Center of IRCCS Mondino Foundation. Dr. Maria Garofalo obtained her PhD in Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Pavia in 2021. Her work, carried out at IRCCS Mondino Foundation, focused on the effect of subcellular localization of SOD1 on the transcriptome of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients. Moreover, she focused her attention on the peculiarity of deregulated transcripts in different neurodegenerative diseases, such as Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and ALS.