Dr. Annamaria Cattaneo is Assistant Professor at the University of Milan and she is also heading the Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, at the IRCCS Fatebenefratelli Institute, where she is coordinating different projects aimed at the identification of early predictors of risk for the development of mood disorders and biomarkers of treatment response. She is particularly interested in evaluating how stress early in life as well as exposure to depression in utero can shape the brain trajectory versus an enhanced vulnerability status. 
Recently she has also focused the attention on the gut microbiome as link between the environment, the immune system and brain functionality.