Giancarlo Pepeu

Prof. Giancarlo Pepeu is Full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Florence.

He has covered different academic positions among which Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations and Chairman of the Evaluation Committee for the International School for Advanced Studies (I.S.A.S./SISSA) in Trieste.

Among his professional activities he is the author of 233 papers published in international journals and co-editor of four books.

He received grants from the Ministry of Education and Universities, the National Council of Research, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and several private companies and foundations.

He gives lectures and seminars in many European, American, Japanese and Chinese Universities.

Since 1993, his research interests focused on Alzheimer’s disease: neurotoxicity of b-amyloid peptides and brain inflammatory reaction, preclinical studies on cholinesterase inhibitors.