Full Professor

Professor Giuseppina Mattace Raso graduated in Pharmacy in 1991 with honors from the University of Naples “Federico II”, obtaining a diploma as a Specialist in Pharmacology in 1993 and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1997. In 1998 he won a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Experimental Pharmacology at the same University. Between April 1996 and November 1997 he attended the Institute of Immunology and Neurobiology at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg. In 2002 she became a researcher in the Department of Experimental Pharmacology of the University of Naples “Federico II”, in 2015 an associate professor and in 2024 a full professor, a current role at the Department of Pharmacy.
He has published over 100 articles in high-impact international journals and participated in numerous national and international conferences, with contributions in pharmacology, endocrinopharmacology, and immunopharmacology. His research focuses on developing new therapeutic tools capable of modulating target proteins, transcriptional factors, enzymes, and receptors in severe inflammatory, metabolic, and neurodegenerative diseases, studying hormones, endogenous molecules, drugs, and supplements.
Professor Mattace Raso's main lines of research include: (i) pharmacological modulation of liver, vascular, and renal alterations by hormonal and metabolic dysfunctions; (ii) identification of molecular targets and pharmacological strategies for the therapy or prevention of neurodegenerative diseases and neuropsychological developmental disorders (Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ASD) and depression; (iii) therapeutic approaches in relation to microbiota-gut-brain (gut-brain axis) communication; (iv) role and modulation of hormones in endocrine and metabolic pathologies, with preclinical and clinical studies; (v) evaluation of toxic effects on endocrine immunity and functions of xenobiotics, toxins and environmental contaminants.