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Diana AMANTEA - Professori Associati

Diana AMANTEA

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Farmacologia (BIOS-11/A)

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Tuesday and Thursday from 14:30 to 16:30

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EDUCATION 2003 – PhD in Pharmacology, Medical School, Birmingham University (UK) 1999 – MIUR fellowship for specialization abroad - Pharmacology Dept, Medical School, Birmingham University (UK) 1998 – Degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (110/110 cum laude), University of Calabria (UNICAL) ACADEMIC CAREER From 2014: Associate Professor of Pharmacology (SSD BIO/14), Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences (HNS), UNICAL From 2005 to 2014: Research Fellow in Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, UNICAL From 2011: Head of the “Stroke” Research Unit at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, UNICAL, operating in the framework of the Stroke Centre and Emergency Neurology Trust (SCENT) consortium and of the Ischemic Stroke Organization (ISO)-basic science. 2003: Honorary Research Fellow, Pharmacology Dept, Medical School, Birmingham University (UK) SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION Author of 75 full papers on peer reviewed international journals (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId= 6506830470), 10 book chapters and 3 editorials. - Total number of citations: 2350 - H-index: 26 Member of the: Italian Pharmacological Society, Italian Society of Neuroscience, Interdisciplinary Neurovascular Society and Italian Stroke Organization. INSTITUTIONAL ROLES: Member of the Board of the Department of Pharmacy and HNS (UNICAL) – periods 2018/2021 and 2021/2024. Member of the Animal Welfare Body (OPBA) of UNICAL from 27/11/2020 Member of the Ethic Committee of the University of Calabria – period 2013/2016 Deputy coordinator of the degree council for the Course of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Department of Pharmacy HNS, UNICAL from 24/06/21.
DIANA AMANTEA Place and date of birth: Napoli (Itay), 27/03/1975 Email: amantea@unical.it ACADEMIC POSITION Associate Professor of Pharmacology Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences University of Calabria Rende (CS) - Italy EDUCATION 1998 – University degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (110/110 cum laude), University of Calabria (Italy) 1999-2000 – Post-graduate MIUR fellowship (Department of Pharmacology, University of Birmingham, UK) 2003 – PhD in Pharmacology (Medical School, University of Birmingham, UK) ACADEMIC CAREER 2003 - Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Neuroscience Division, Birmingham University (UK) 2005 - 2014 University Researcher in Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Calabria (Italy) From 2014: Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Calabria (Italy) BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS: Number of full papers: 66 Citations: 2051 H-index: 25 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATIONS: 12/04/2017: full professor, SC 05G1 (Pharmacology) TEACHING AND FELLOWSHIPS FROM INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: - Visting researcher: Neurovascular Research Unit (group leaders: M.A. Moro and I. Lizasoain), Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain) - MIUR fellowship in the frame of the integrated actions Italy-Spain (09-10/2009) - Visting researcher: Département de Biologie Cellulaire et de Morphologie (group leader: Dr P. Bezzi), Université de Lausanne (CH) - Voucher regionale per l'alta formazione (11/2008) - Visting researcher: Department of Pharmacology, Neuroscience Division, University of Birmingham (UK) - Honorary Research Fellow (03/2003 12/2003) - Teaching: Medical School, University of Birmingham (UK) - Tutor for the course “Pharmacology for medical students” (10/2002-05/2003) - Research: Department of Pharmacology, Neuroscience Division, University of Birmingham (UK) - PhD (Glaxo Smith Kline fellowship) (09/2000 02/2003) - Research: Department of Pharmacology, Neuroscience Division, University of Birmingham (UK) - MIUR fellowship for specialization abroad (09/1999 09/2000) RESEARCH PROJECTS: PRIN 2017 - Title: “Exploitation of circulating miRNAs for diagnosis and neuroprotection in translational stroke studies”, (36 months, role: research coordinator) PRIN 2015 - Title: Calcium release-activated calcium modulator 1 (ORAI-1) and Stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) in brain ischemic preconditioning as new targets to reprogram the innate immune system and induce tolerance in neurons (36 months, role: RESEARCH UNIT COORDINATOR) PRIN 2008 - Title: Ruolo del fattore di trascrizione STAT3 nella risposta infiammatoria a livello dell'unità neurovascolare in un modello sperimentale di "stroke". Implicazioni per lo sviluppo di farmaci neuroprotettivi (24 months, role: researcher) Integrated actions Italy-Spain 2008 - Title: Regulation of the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in cerebral ischemia (24 months, role: researcher) Ricerca Sanitaria Finalizzata (es. 2006) - Title: "Studio di marker biologici, neurofisiologici e neuroradiologici associati all'ictus cerebrale acuto" (24 months, role: researcher) PRIN 2006 - Title: Ruolo delle proteasi della matrice nell'espressione precoce e tardiva dei mediatori del danno cerebrale ischemico nel ratto (24 months, role: researcher) PRIN 2004 - Title: Studio dei meccanismi di neuroprotezione degli estrogeni in un modello sperimentale di ischemia-riperfusione nel cervello di ratto (24 months, role: researcher) PRIN 2002 - Title: Studio dei meccanismi di morte neuronale in modelli sperimentali di eccitotossicità in vivo (24 months, role: researcher) RESEARCH NETWORKS: - Member of the Ischemic Stroke Organization basic science: ISO-BS is a network of preclinical stroke researchers aimed at optimizing the process of R&D for novel stroke therapeutics. In this frame, the proponent is actually participating in the first multicenter preclinical trial (TRICS BASIC) sponsored by MIUR (PRIN2017) aimed at assessing the efficacy of ischemic remote post-conditioning in rodent cerebral ischemia (Registered at preclinicaltrials.eu, identifier PCTE0000177). - Member of the advisory board of the clinical trial TRICS-9 (ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04400981) aimed at assessing safety and efficacy of ischemic remote post-conditioning in ischemic stroke patients. - Member of the Stroke Center and Emergency Neurology Trust (SCENT is a consortium of research and clinical infrastructures that work in the field of emergency neurology) AWARDS AND GRANTS Sep 1999 - Scholarship: Post-graduate MIUR fellowship for specialization abroad Sep 2000 - Scholarship: GlaxoSmithKline PhD scholarship Jul 2001 - Award: British Pharmacological Society Bain Memorial Bursary Award (BPS Dublin Summer meeting) Apr 2011 - Award: FEBS JOURNAL Top Cited Paper Award for "Post-ischemic brain damage: pathophysiology and role of inflammatory mediators", Amantea D., Nappi G., Bernardi G., Bagetta G., Corasaniti M.T.; FEBS Journal 2009 (276): 13-26. 2017: “Young Professional” price awarded by Rotary Club Cosenza PATENT Azithromycin, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates for use as neuroprotectors, Patent Number: IT1405314-B Patent Assignee: UNIV CALABRIA Inventors: AMANTEA D; BAGETTA G; CALTAGIRONE C; CORASANITI MT; NAPPI G EDITORIAL ACTIVITY: - Member of the editorial board of: Current Opinion in Pharmacology (Elsevier) from 2015, Current Research in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery (Elsevier) from 2020, Frontiers in Neurology-Stroke from 2019, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience from 2019, Exploration of Neuroprotective Therapies from 2021, ISRN Stroke from 2012 and ISRN Neurology from 2013. - Founder and editor of the series "Frontiers in Neurotherapeutics" CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group, Boca Raton, FL, USA from 07/2012. - Editor of the volume “Naturally Occurring Benzodiazepines, Endozepines, and their Receptors” (ISBN: 978-0-367-81437-3), CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA, July 2021. - Guest Editor for the 2016 Neuroscience Section of Current Opinion in Pharmacology (Elsevier) - Editor of the volume “Rational Basis for Clinical Translation in Stroke Therapy” (ISBN: 978-1-4665-94975), CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2014.
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Tuesday and Thursday from 14:30 to 16:30