Dr. Vercelli received her MD degree from the University of Florence in 1978 and trained in immunology at Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where in 1991 she became an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. In 1999, she moved to the University of Arizona where she currently is a Regents Professor, a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, the Associate Director of the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, and the Director of the Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases (ABCD).  She is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and from 2005 to 2012 was the Associate Editor for Genetics of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.  Dr. Vercelli’s research relies on both human and animal models and focuses on the environmental, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate allergic inflammation and asthma.Dr. Vercelli has received numerous honors awards.  In 2017 she received the Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award from the Clinical Research Forum. In 2018 she became the Secretary General, and in 2022 the Vice-President, of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum, of which she will become President in 2026. In 2019 she was awarded the Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize for Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity by the University of Arizona. In 2022 she became a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.