Academic Honors and Awards
1993 Poster Prize of The International Academy for Biomedical Research,
CINP - CAPRI.
1995 Member of the National Committee for studying the chemical, pharmacological and toxicological aspects of drug of abuse. Minister of Health.
1995 Expert of the Istituto di Neuroscienze e Bioimmagini of CNR.
1997 Award Novartis for Neuroscience, Brescia.
1998-99 Grant Telethon entitled “ Physiopatology of midbrain dopaminergic neurones in a genetic disease of the nigro-striatal system”.
2001-2002
and 2002-2004 Grants COFIN and FIRB to study the action of abused drugs on the dopaminergic system
2001-2005 Grants of the Minister of Health for studying the excitotoxicity and the effects of energy deprivation on the dopaminergic neurons
2005 to 2011 Grants from the Minister of Health for studying the effects of neurotoxins, NMDA receptors stimulation on dopaminergic cells
2009-2011 Grants from the Minister of Health for studying the mechanisms of neuronal death (apoptosis) on animal models of Alzheimer disease.