Laura Mannarino graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. She has worked as bioinformatician at the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS studying the mechanism of action of the drugs using pharmacogenomics approaches.

In Humanitas, she joined the Cancer Pharmacology Lab, dealing with the bioinformatic analyses of omics data related to liposarcomas, mesotheliomas, and ovarian cancer.