Alessandra Micera, a neurobiologist, is the chief lead of the Research Laboratories in Ophthalmology (UR Research) and director of the Research and Development Laboratory in the biochemical, molecular and cellular field applied to Ophthalmological Sciences (certified Iso 9001:2015 Accredia). She graduated in Biology in 1993 (La Sapienza University in Rome), with an experimental thesis carried out in the Neurobiology Institute (Prof. Rita Levi-Montalcini, CNR, Rome) and improved her molecular expertise at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK; 1994-1995). In 2007 she earned a PhD in Immunopharmacology from the Hadassah Medical School-Hebrew University (School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem Israel) and in 2023 she obtained a specialization in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry. She has well-documented expertise in translational research, with a multidisciplinary approach centered on the real needs of the Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the crosstalk between Clinic and Laboratory. Her main interests encompass: the analysis of candidate biomarkers in several biological/ocular fluids for early diagnosis and monitoring of therapy in ocular diseases; the understanding of the complex network between cells, neurotrophins and inflammatory mediators during ocular diseases, from acute to chronic-inflammatory and tissue remodelling states; the support to the ocular differential diagnosis through the development of SOP and the design and development of not invasive tools/strategies for sampling and on-site analysis of biomarkers. She is the principal investigator of the research project “Tear-film Evolution in Antarctic Region: biostrumental, biochemical and behavioral PLAYers” funded by the National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA D.D. 1314 of 25/05/2018 PNRA18_00341-F-MIUR).