Professional experience

2018-present   Full Professor of Biotechnology and Methods In Laboratory Medicine Department of Pharmacy Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria Italy

2010-2018   Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology Department of Pharmacy Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria Italy

2008-2010   Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria Italy

1999-2008   Assistant Professor of General Pathology Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria Italy

1993 Research Assistant Faculty of Pharmacy University of Calabria Italy

Education

1995 Residency: Endocrinology and Metabolism with honour, University of Messina Italy

1990 Degree: Doctor of Medicine with honour, University of Perugia Italy

Biography

Daniela Bonofiglio, MD endocrinologist, is currently Full Professor of Biotechnology and Methods in Laboratory Medicine at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy. Her scientific interests are devoted to dissecting the molecular mechanisms involved in initiation and progression of endocrine-related cancers with the main goal to identify novel markers and potential therapeutic targets for these diseases. Her achievements contributed in advance scientific knowledge on Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma (PPARγ) biology, focusing on the inhibiting role of natural and synthetic ligands of PPARγ in cancer growth and progression. In the context of natural products field, her research activity has been also focused on the beneficial role of different food compounds on human health and, particularly, on the nutraceuticals from the Mediterranean Diet involved in cancer growth and progression. In addition, in the last two decades she investigated the iodine status of young and adult population living in sufficient and deficient iodine areas and the impact of the adherence of the Mediterranean diet and physical activity on biochemical and inflammatory parameters in a sample of adolescents and adult from Southern Italy.