Originally from Italy, Storici shares with Betsy M. Sutherland a great interest in the repair of DNA damage. While at the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, she showed that a DNA double-strand break can be efficiently repaired by single-strand DNA fragments. The mechanism proposed for the repair is similar to that proposed for the repair of high-density lesions caused by ionizing radiation, which were characterized by Betsy’s studies (Storici et al., Mol. Cell. Bol. 2006).