Daniela Carnevale graduated in 2005 in Biological Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, and completed her training in Neuroimmunology at the Italian National Institute of Health, receiving her PhD in Neuroscience in 2010. She was recruited as a PostDoc at the Department of AngioCardioNeurology and Translational Medicine of IRCCS Neuromed and Sapienza University to investigate the neuroinflammatory processes involved in vascular dementia. In 2012 she joined the faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine of Sapienza University at IRCCS Neuromed as Assistant Professor, focusing on the investigation of immune mechanisms involved hypertension and its related target organ damage. Associate Professor and Head of the Research Unit of Neuro and Cardiovascular Immunology in 2018, she was appointed Full Professor in 2020 through direct call by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) for having won a high-level research programme (European Research Council - ERC SymPAtHY). Author of more than 60 peer-reviewed papers published in highly qualified journals (Nature, Immunity, Nature Reviews Cardiology, Circulation, ATVB, Hypertension, Cardiovascular Research, Nature Communications, etc), Fellow of the AHA, reviewer for various international scientific journals, Prof. Carnevale is Associate Editor of Cardiovascular Research from 2018 and Editor of the Early Career Section of Hypertension. Prof. Carnevale has been appointed as expert of the Italian Ministry of Health and member of the Health Research National Committee. Funded by various granting agencies, she received an ERC Starting Grant in 2017, two European grants ERANET-CVDs in 2018 and 2019, plus grants from the Italian Ministry of Research (FARE-MIUR; PRIN2020). Her research focuses on elucidating how the nervous system modulates the immune response involved in hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases.