Born February 4, 1944, Pharmacy degree, 1967 and Ph.D. in
Biomedical Sciences, 1970, University of Bologna. Full Professor of
Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, University of Bologna since 1986.
Senior Research Associate, Department of Preventive Medicine and
Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX, USA, 1975-1978. Adjunct Professor, Division of
Environmental Toxicology, Department of Preventive Medicine and
Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX, USA, since 1989. Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy,
1994-2000 and 2003-2005. Director of the Post-Graduate School of
Toxicology, 1987-2003. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in
Pharmacology and Toxicology, 1999- present. President of “Polo
Scientifico-Didattico” di Rimini, 2007/2010–2010/2012.
President of the Italian College of Pharmacologists (2010);
Guarantee Member of the PRIN Committee for the evaluation of
research projects of national interest, Italian Ministery of
Instruction, University and Research (2010-); President of the
Italian Society of Toxicology, 2000-2009. He was member of a
variety of Committees at national and european level: Member of the
Regional Committee on Pesticides, 1987-1989 and coordinator of the
Pesticide Research Program Review Panel, editing of 38
toxicological expertises, 1989-1991; Consultant Committee on
Pesticides, National Ministery of Health, 1992-95; Scientific
Committee for the EU certification of Parmesan Cheese, 1993;
Consultant of the National Academy of Agricolture, 1998-present;
Coordinator of the Working Group on Food Toxicology, 1996-present;
Member of the Scientific Committee of the “G. Lorenzini”
Foundation, 1998-present; Expert in the Scientific Committee on
Toxicology, Ecotoxicology and Environment of the European
Community, 2000-2004; Member of the FIRB Committee (National
funding committee for scientific research), Italian Ministery of
Instruction, University and Research, 2001-2007; Expert member of
the technical and scientific Committee of the Italian Ministery of
Agricolture (Consiglio tecnico-scientifico degli esperti per la
politica agricola ed agroalimentare, Ministero delle Politiche
Agricole e Forestali), 2001-2004; Member of the Working Group for
the revision of the Guidelines for an Healthy Nutrition, National
Institute for Research on Food and Nutrition, 2002-2003; Member of
the Working Group of the Italian Ministry of Health to redige
quality criteria for mineral water, 2003-2005; Member of the
National Committee for the evaluation of the scientific research
(CIVR), 2005; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian
Ministry of Environment, 2005. Member of the Register of Italian
Certified Toxicologists (RENTIC), 2001-. Several teaching
responsabilities in postgraduate courses in the Medical and
Pharmacy Schools. Authored more than 300 full papers in the field
of pharmacology and toxicology, with focus on cellular and
molecular mechanism of mutagenesis and drug metabolism. Knowledge
and qualifications: GeneticToxicology, Toxicokinetics, Biochemical
Toxicology, Food Toxicology.
Awards and Honors:
Mercanzia Prize 1995; Invernizzi Prize 2002; Cited on the
International Journal of Toxicology 21 (6), 439-440, 2002 and on
Toxicology 190, 35-54, 2003; Medal of the President of the Italian
Republic awarded by Pio Manzù Centre's International Scientific
Committee, 2011; Esculapio Prize 2011; “Rotary Livio Minguzzi”
Prize 2012.
