Giancarlo Solaini

Professor of Alma Mater (Full Professor of Biochemistry) at the Dept of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. In 1972 he received the Laurea in Chemistry cum laude (5 years), University of Bologna. Since 1974, he has been performing experimental research in the field of Biochemistry at the University of Bologna, and at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari S. Anna, Pisa, Italy. He was a Post-doc Fellow at Dept of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Warwick, UK, a Guest Researcher at the Lab of Molecular Biology, MRC Cambridge (UK) to collaborate with Prof. JE Walker (Nobel laureate), at the Dept of Ophthalmology, USC, LA (USA), and at the Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford (UK). His main research interests: fundamental studies on enzyme structure and kinetics, pathogenic mechanisms induced by mutations of mitochondrial DNA; ischemia and hypoxia in mitochondrial pathophysiology; cellular bioenergetics and metabolism in normal and cancer cells.