Ferdinando Nicoletti is a professor at the
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University Sapienza of Rome, Italy.
He received a degree in Medicine and Surgery and a qualification to practice
medicine in 1982. He has been an Associate Professor at the Faculty of
Pharmacy, University of Catania, since 1995. He has been head of the Laboratory
of Neuropharmacology of the Department of Molecular Pathology, Neuromed
Institute (I.R.C.C.S.), since 1996. He is a member of the Italian Society of
Pharmacology, the Italian Group for the Study of Magnesium, the American
Society of Neuroscience, and the Argentine Society of Neuroscience (Honorary
Member). His research interests are molecular neuropharmacology; cellular and
preclinical models of CNS disorders; and metabotropic glutamate receptors.
