We can’t make true progress on unmet medical needs unless we understand what the patients themselves think they need or say is missing from their treatment options.

Since a young age growing up in Italy, the workings of the human body have fascinated me — a curiosity that brought me to medical research. I’ve always wanted to help people. And through discovering new medicines, we can potentially help millions of patients.

What drives me — and so many other scientists in Europe and around the globe — is a desire to find new therapies that will improve people’s lives, especially in areas where there is currently an unmet need.

As a personal example, my passion for psychiatric diseases stems from witnessing the profound suffering they cause not just to the patient, but also within families. The global rise of mental health illnesses deeply concerns me and demands urgent attention.

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