Eugenio Barone is Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli” of Sapienza University of Rome. His primary field of interest is Neuroscience and in particular the role of the heme oxygenase/biliverdin reductase (HO/BVR) system in the regulation of the cell stress response in the pathogenesis of free radical-related diseases, with special emphasis on the central nervous system and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer disease. Other research topics are (i) the role of dietary antioxidant and their use as potential therapeutic agents for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative disease, (ii) design and synthesis of new drug delivery systems such as nanoparticles, and (iii) neurobiology of gamma-secretase; which is one of the main proteins involved in the onset and progression of Alzheimer disease.
Education and training
July 2014 National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of Biochemistry
February 2011 Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Institute of Pharmacology, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
December 2006 Exam to be legally entitled in practicing the profession of Pharmacist, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
May 2006 Doctor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (summa cum laude), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
Positions and Honors
From January 2012 – to January 2014 Post-doctoral Researcher, Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
From December 2010 – to July 2011 Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Pharmacology, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
From January 2010 – to November 2010 Research Scholar, (a) Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology in the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and (b) Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Neurochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
