
Roberto Villa Federico
Associate Professor
University of PaviaÂ
Italy
Biography
Graduated in Biological Sciences (D.Sc) and in Medicine and Surgery (M.D.)-Associate Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pavia -Teaching Pharmacology for students in Biological Sciences and in Chemistry - Visiting: (1) Department of Neurology and (2) Cerebral Metabolism Research Laboratory, University of Lund, Sweden; (3) Department of Psychobiology, University of California ICI, U.S.A.; (4) Max Plank Institute for Neurochemistry, University of Gottingen, Germany. Research activities: biochemical studies on Physiopathology and Pharmacology of the Central Nervous System in experimental conditions of hypoxia,ischaemia, iperammoniemia, ipoglycemia on the cerebral energy metabolism and actions of drugs on the brain energy state; molecular mechanisms of ageing and drugs' interference; the study of Parkinson’s disease and drugs' actions in Dementia.
Research Interest
Neurology, Parkinson's Disease, Drug Development, Brain Disorders, Dementia