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Studies:
12/11/1990 Degree in
Pharmacy at the University of Messina (Italy), summa cum laude.
15/12/1994 Specialist Diploma in Pharmacognosy at the University of Messina
(Italy), with the highest mark.
Professional experience
1991-1993 Member of a
research group at the Pharmaco-Biological Department of the Messina
University (Italy).
1994 -
1996 Visiting researcher at the Department of Experimental
Medicine and Biochemical Sciences of the University of Rome
"Tor Vergata"
(Italy).
Nov.1999/July 2002 Visiting
researcher at the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the
Institut de Biologia Fonamental "Vicent Villar i
Palasi', Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain).
Award and Fellowship
1991-1992 Scholarship
awarded by the Messina County Government.
1999 Fellowships
for "Short Term Mobility" awarded by the National Research Council (CNR,
Italy).
08/10/1999 "Analossilaos"
award for young scientific researcher.
2000 Fellowships
for "Short Term Mobility"
awarded by the National Research Council (CNR, Italy).
2001 Fellowships by the Italian Toxicological Society (SITOX).
2002 Fellowships by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas (CSIC, Spain).
Academic
activities
3/9/'96
- 13/1/'98
Assistant professor in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the
University of Reggio Calabria (Italy).
13/1/'98
- 11/10/'06
Assistant professor in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the
University "Magna
Græcia"
of Catanzaro (Italy).
11/10/'06
- Associate professor in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the
University of Messina (Italy).
Grants
European Fund for Regional
Development 1994 - 1999 (member of the research group).
Several National Program on
AIDS (Ministery of healt; 1995 - 2005; member of the research group).
PRIN 1998
- 1999 (member of
the research group).
Ministerio de Ciencia y
Tecnologia, Spain 2000 - 2003 (member of the research group).
POR Calabria Region 2000
-
2006 (member of the research group).
PRIN 2004
- 2005 (member of
the research group).
PRA 2006
- 2007 (principal
investigator).
Fondazione Banco di Sicilia
2007 - 2008 (principal investigator).
Assessorato Sanità Regione Sicilia 2007
- 2008
(responsible of research unit).
PRA 2008 - 2009 (Member of
the research group).
PO
FESR Sicilia 2007 - 2013. (principal investigator).
PRIN 2010
- 2011 (member of
the research group).
Main scientific interest
Research activity is focused
on the mechanisms underline the cell death.
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