Rosanna Asselta graduated in Biological Sciences and received her PhD in Molecular Genetics applied to Medical Sciences from the University of Milan. In 2005, she became Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Milan. In 2014 she moved to Humanitas University as Associate Professor of Medical Genetics, and in 2022 she became Full Professor in the same field. She developed a strong expertise in statistical analysis of genetic data, also thanks to a two-year long experience as visiting scientist at the Department of Molecular Medicine of the Helsinki University, and at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT of Boston. During her doctoral and post-doctoral training she followed international courses at the Turku Centre for Biotechnology (2004), European School of Genetic Medicine (2005), Helsinki University (2006), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2008), and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (2009). She received awards from the Italian Telethon Foundation (2001), the European Molecular Biology Organization (2004), and the European Science Foundation (2004). In 2005, she was also awarded the Early Career Investigator Award (Bayer Hemophilia program). She is author of 173 papers indexed in Pubmed, with a total impact factor of 2000, a mean impact factor of 11.5, and an h-index of 38 (Scopus) and 44 (Google Scholar). Scopus Author ID: 6701592209 - ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5351-0619 [Updated on February 6th, 2022]