Dr Valerio Chiurchiù is a young Principal Investigator and head of the Laboratory of Resolution of Neuroinflammation at the European Center for Brain Research of Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome. He received his PhD from the University of Rome and he pursued his postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of Dr. Luca Battistini and of Prof. Mauro Maccarrone in the fields of Neuroimmunology and Biochemistry. He joined as a post-doc the lab of Prof. Jacobsson at the University of Stockholm and of Prof. Charles Serhan in Harvard Medical School. In 2016 he received the position of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Campus Bio-medico University of Rome and in 2020 He obtained the permanent position of laboratory director at the Institute of Translational Pharmacology of CNR of Rome. Dott. Chiurchiù and his team study the immunomodulatory role of bioactive lipids on immune cell populations in both health and disease, with particular focus on the novel field of "Resolution of inflammation". His studies have contributed to the discovery of the physiological role of the newly characterized specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators in adaptive immunity and their impairment in neuroinflammatory/neurodegenerative diseases. For his research he received several prestigious awards.