Role
Full Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Milan; Vice President of the Research Ethics Committee, University of Brescia; former Deputy Vice Rector and Vice Rector for Research and Innovation; Vice President of the Unimi Foundation; President of the Filarete Foundation
Bio
After graduating in Pharmacy from the University of Milan in 1979, he obtained a specialization in Experimental Toxicology in 1984 and a PhD in Experimental Medicine in 1988. During his training he spent periods abroad at the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Texas at Houston and as an Honorary Research Fellow at London University College London, UK .
Throughout her academic career, she has been a researcher, assistant professor of neuropsychopharmacology, and subsequently associate and full professor. She is currently a full professor of pharmacology at the University of Milan, teaching and conducting research in experimental and personalized clinical pharmacology.
His research focuses on the pathophysiological roles of purines, cell differentiation, and the development of novel therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myocardial infarction, brain trauma, and Alzheimer's disease. He contributed to the identification of the purinergic receptor (GPR17), a novel receptor involved in myelin repair, and characterized novel selective molecules for this target with potential applications. He also studied its potential therapeutic uses in degenerative diseases in brain damage caused by neuroinflammation.
She is the author or co-author of over 200,250 international scientific publications, according to updated sources, an inventor on several international patents, and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Scientist. She has won numerous awards and recognitions in the field of biomedical innovation, and in 2014 she was awarded the honor of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and in 2016 she was appointed a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Spain .