About me

I am Maria Antonietta Principalli, I write about the life sciences for biotech companies, universities, publishers and museums. I am a molecular biologist with a PhD in Structural and Nanobiology from the Université Grenoble Alpes, carried out in collaboration with the CEA and the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) in Grenoble. I studied the structure and function of ion channels involved in the molecular mechanisms of type 2 diabetes and published the results in peer-reviewed international journals. Those years taught me to work with complexity: in a system where every detail matters, every piece of data must be treated accordingly.

After my PhD, I worked as a nutritionist with patients affected by metabolic diseases. I made a simple but decisive observation: people were far more likely to follow their nutrition plan when they understood the reason behind each choice, when the science behind every adjustment was explained, not just prescribed.

I realised that what I was most interested in was not the practice itself, but the translation — taking a complex biological concept and making it precise, clear and useful without losing scientific integrity.

From that point on, I steered my work in that direction. MM Science Studio was born at the end of 2025: the two Ms are the initials of a project started with a colleague and longtime friend, which I now run on my own.

Today MM Science Studio writes scientific texts for biotech companies, universities and research centres, publishers and museums: white papers, articles, manuscripts, exhibition texts. I start from the data and the primary literature, because to write well about science you first have to understand it.

MM Science Studio is my studio. For projects that call for complementary expertise, such as more complex editorial design, I work with selected professionals.