Filippo Mancia is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University. He graduated in Chemistry in Pavia (Italy), and obtained a PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Dr. Phil Evans, FRS. His post-doctoral work was carried out in the labs of Drs. Wayne Hendrickson and Richard Axel in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University. He is a structural biologist with experience in x-ray crystallography, single particle cryo-electron microscopy, and in production and characterization of membrane proteins for structural studies. The main research focus of his lab is on membrane protein – lipid interactions, both in terms of enzymes, which process lipid substrates, and of transporters, which mediate cellular uptake of lipidic substrates. He is also interested in applying structural biology and related techniques to study mechanisms of resistance utilized by pathogens to counter the efficacy of current therapeutics. He has held a leadership role in ISSNAF, promoting its mission, since 2016, as a member of the Board of Trustees first, and now a part of its Scientific Advisory Council.