Veronica Francardo received her undergraduate training at the University of Trieste, Italy, where she graduated in Medical Biotechnologies. Since 2007, Veronica is a researcher at Lund University, Sweden, where she obtained her PhD degree in Neurobiology under the supervision of Prof Angela Cenci-Nilsson. Veronica Francardo is currently Assistant Professor in the group of Prof. Angela Cenci-Nilsson and carries out pre-clinical research on animal models of Parkinson’s disease and post-mortem human brain tissue. The main interest of her work is to test and develop potential new therapies for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders.