Vincenzo Mollace

Vincenzo Mollace Professor University of Catanzaro Italy

Biography

He is Former Director of the Department of Pharmacology Int San Raffaele IRCCS Rome, Director of Research Institute for Food Safety, UNICZ Consultant at European Medical Agency Committee, for Chair in Pharmacology, Faculty of Biology, UNIVROMA 3 Rome. Full Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Catanzaro, Italy. Former External Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Rome. Full Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”, Italy. As from 2012, he is also the Director of the International Research Center for Food Safety & Health of Southern Italy, granted by the Italian Ministry of Research with 40 million euro’s for research in Nutraceuticals. His research activity, carried out in many research centres worldwide (mainly the William Harvey Research Institute in London directed by the Nobel Prize Sir John Vane, and Research Fellow and consultant for Cardiovascular Pharmacology at Metaphore Pharm Inc St Louis, USA), that mainly addressed and studied the effect of antioxidant compounds in protecting against atherosclerosis and vascular injury. Prof. Mollace discovered first, in 2006, the properties of bergamot juice in experimental models of vascular injury published in peer reviewed top ranking scientific journals. For his scientific work, Prof. Mollace was awarded with important international prizes and honour. He has published, to date, more than 100 papers and book chapters in the field of cardiovascular pharmacology. Born in Casignana, RC, Italy on January 6th, 1960 MD degree from the University of Messina (110/110 cum Laude) (July 1983) Residency in Cardiology (score 70/70 cum laude) (November 1988)