 She is a graduate of the University of Milan (Biological Sciences) and earned a Master's Degree in Scientific Journalism from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) in Trieste, Italy.Manuela Campanelli has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Voltolino Prize for Dissemination of Science in 1999, and the Novo Nordisk Media Prize for her article 
"Living Well with Diabetes” in 2007.With Luigi Ferini-Strambi (Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor) she wrote the book "Un Sonno Perfetto" ("A Perfect Sleep"), which discusses the causes and treatments of sleep disorders.