Role
Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Pharmaceutical and Health Products Sciences, University of Camerino.
Bio
After graduating in Pharmacy from the University of Camerino in 2008 with a professional qualification, she earned a PhD in Chemical, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology from the same university in 2012, completing part of her training at the University of Zurich. Her academic and scientific career spanned the Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and the Pharmacology Unit at the University of Camerino, where she is currently an associate professor.
His research focuses on neuropsychopharmacology and is aimed at identifying new therapeutic targets for obesity, eating disorders, and associated comorbidities.
Her scientific interests include the neurobiological mechanisms underlying obesity and compulsive eating disorders , with particular reference to bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder . Her research studies the role of calorie restriction and stress in the onset of binge eating and the consumption of highly palatable foods. In this field, she also develops innovative pharmacological strategies , investigating the involvement of the endocannabinoid system, orexin, and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.
Author of numerous publications in international journals, in 2016 she won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. She has also been awarded the Farmindustria-SIF Award (2013), the Merck Sharp Dohme Award from SIF (2017), and prestigious Travel Awards from IBRO, ECNP, FENS, and EBPS.