Dr. Paola Casanello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and the Department of Neonatology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. A graduate Midwife (1996), trained in Perinatology (2000) and M.Sc. in Biological Sciences/Physiology (2003) at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile. With a Ph.D. in Physiological Sciences (2007) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) she directs the Lab of Perinatal Programming and Epigenetics at the School of Medicine, at the PUC since 2010. Her team is centered on studying perinatal nutrition, placental function, neonatal adiposity and growth, neonatal immunity, and epigenetic mechanisms leading to chronic disease in the offspring of women with obesity. To date has supervised 14 postgraduate students (4 MSc and 10 Ph.D.) from diverse Ph.D. programs at PUC, University of Chile, and the University of Valparaiso. She collaborates with groups in Canadá, Germany, India, and UK. She has published 60 full papers, has led 3 associative national grants (FONDEF & Anillo), 4 national FONDECYT grants, and co-researcher in 10 FONDECYT grants. She is a Reviewing Editor for Current Vascular Pharmacology and Editor in Ars Medica (PUC, Chile).