Biochemist, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Degree in Biomedicine, Patent Inventor - Purification procedure of “manna impura” to obtain enriched and marketable “manna”. Guest Editor for several international scientific journals. Author of 48 publications on International journals of Biochemistry and Nutraceutics. Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies - University of Palermo. The research topics concern: Research on synthetic or natural molecules with potential antitumor, anti-inflammatory and nutraceutical activity. Theophrastos Prize from the International Pro-Mediterranean Herbarium Foundation 2017 for biochemical studies on organic molecules with nutraceutical effects extracted from Mediterranean plants.

Sicilian foods; bioactive compounds; phytochemicals; bioactivity; cell cultures (colon, breast, cervix, liver, neuroblastoma); cell biology; chemoprevention; oxidative stress; eryptosis; apoptosis.