Full Professor of Pharmacology

Training, research and teaching experience
2024: Honorary Professor - University of Rome Tor Vergata - Department of Systems Medicine
2005-2024: Full Professor of Pharmacology - University of Rome Tor Vergata - Department of Systems Medicine
2002-2005: Extraordinary Professor of Pharmacology, University of Rome Tor Vergata
1991-2002: Associate Professor of Pharmacology
1988-1991: Associate Professor of Chemotherapy
1985-1998: “Res. Ass. Professor”, Georgetown University Medical School, Dept. Pharmacology, Washington DC, USA
1984-1985: “Guest Researcher”, Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacology, NIMH, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC, USA
1980-1984: “Fogarty Fellow", Lab Preclin Pharmacol, NIMH, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC, USA;
1979: Magna cum laude Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan

Maria Luisa Barbaccia's research focused on the mechanisms by which drugs and psychotropic substances interact with various neurotransmitter systems (particularly monoaminergics and GABAergics) in the central nervous system. He also studied neurosteroids, steroids produced from scratch or through the metabolism of circulating steroids by the central nervous system. These steroids can influence, through multiple molecular mechanisms, some important brain functions, their modulation by drugs, substances of abuse, and stress, as well as the possible role of neurosterodes in the process of neuronal differentiation.

Bibliometric indices
Total number of publications: 90
H-index: 39
Number of citations: 6177