Dr Marianna Christodoulou is an Assistant Professor of Immunology at the Department of Life Sciences of the European University Cyprus (2019-today). She possesses a BSc diploma in Biology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003), a MSc diploma in Clinical Biochemistry–Molecular Diagnostics from the Faculty of Biology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2015) and a PhD degree in Immunology-Human Autoimmunity from the School of Medicine of the same University (2010). Marianna worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Schools of Medicine (2010-2012) and Biology (2012-2016) of the University of Athens and at the Research Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation of the University of Glasgow (UK) (2017-2019). Her research expertise is primarily in the field of immune-mediated conditions (autoimmunity, tumor immunology, inflammation in type-2 diabetes) and application of novel omics technologies in translational research. Her work is included in 19 research articles (first/last author in 11 of them), published in high-impact international peer-reviewed journals (Google scholar metrics as of 25/11/2021: h-index=13; Citations=861), and presented in several international and national conferences. She has received awards by the Hellenic Society for Rheumatology (Athens, Greece in 2004 and 2006) and the Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2007), and an individual scholarship for Post-Doctoral Research by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (2017-2019). Her current research interests are focused on novel immune-regulatory cytokines and their involvement in the abovementioned disorders, as well as the development of related biomarkers, using transcriptomics approaches. Marianna is leading the Tumor Immunology and Biomarkers group of BTCRC, collaborating with research groups at EUC, University of Athens, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai (China). She has been actively involved in 7 national/international funded research programs in Greece, Cyprus and the UK, working among others in the fields of tumor immunology, metastasis and anti-cancer properties of natural products. She is also an Affiliate Researcher at the University of Glasgow. She has served as ad-hoc reviewer in >40 international scientific journals, editorial board member in two, and Guest-Editor in two.