Turco Maria Caterina is a Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Salerno University, Italy has long been working with in vitro and in vivo tumor models. She is author of 107 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including: PNAS, Blood, Leukemia, Oncogene, Cancer Research, Cell Death and Differentiation, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Immunology.