Davide Cacchiarelli is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology (Rita Levi-Montalcini program) at the University of Naples Federico II and Head of the Laboratory of Integrative Genomics at TIGEM (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine). Born in Rome in 1984, he earned his PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT, studying cell fate transitions using genomic approaches. Returning to Italy in 2017 with support from the Telethon and Armenise-Harvard Foundations, his laboratory investigates cell fate dynamics in aging, disease, and reprogramming. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant and the Alfredo Margreth Prize in Cellular Biology (2024).