Gwenola Manic received her Ph.D. from the University of Paris Sud/Paris XI (France) in 2012 studying the impact of the design of HIV-1-derived vectors and DNA repair machinery on lentiviral expression. At present she is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biology at the Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata? in Rome (Italy) on the contribution of chromosomal instability in tumorigenesis and the therapeutic targeting of cancer stem cells.