Vittorio Calabrese MD, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the School of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Catania in the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences.
He is the Director of the School of Specialization in Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Catania, the University of Messina, and the University of Palermo. His research focuses on the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human disease, particularly Alzheimer´s disease and other brain disorders. His interest in identifying the most important antioxidants in the human diet and in developing novel antioxidants has critical bearing on treating human diseases and understanding how diet might cause or prevent them.
Professor Calabrese earned his Doctor of Medicine in Neuroscience from the University of Catania in 1984 with his thesis “Modification of Brain lipid Metabolism during ageing” in 1988, he earned a specialization in neurology with his thesis on oxidative stress in the central nervous system.
The co-authors on this latest paper on Coriolus and Meniere´s were Rosanna Di Paola, Rosalba Siracusa, Roberta Fusco, Marialaura Ontario, Gaetano Cammilleri, Licia Pantano, Maria Scuto, Mario Tomasello, Sestina Spanò, Angela Trovato Salinaro, Ali S. Abdelhameed, Vincenzo Ferrantelli, Antonio Arcidiacono, Tilman Fritsch, Gabriella Lupo, Anna Signorile, Luigi Maiolino, and Salvatore Cuzzocrea.