Emanuela Esposito

Full Professor - PhD
Università degli Studi di Messina

Emanuela Esposito is Full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Messina. In 2000 she obtained a degree in Pharmacy, in 2003 the PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, in 2005 the specialization in Pharmacology and in 2009 the PhD in Clinical Neurobiological Sciences. 

From 2018, Prof. Esposito is Director of Master in Preparation techniques of Antiblastic drugs and assessment of the safety and effectiveness of medical devices at the University of Messina (Messina, Italy) and from 2020, Prof. Esposito is Director of Pharmacogenetics unit at the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria (AOU) G. Martino (Messina, Italy) and Director of the School of Specialization in Hospital Pharmacy (Messina, Italy).  Emanuela Esposito is author of Esposito is author of more than 280 publications including articles in peer reviewed international journals, 133 congress participation and 4 scientific books . Citations:  8560; H index: 52.

During her career, Prof. Esposito won 9 national and international awards and she received more than 10 Grant for research. Research in the Esposito Laboratory develops dominant activity in research of novel pharmacological targets for counteracting the neuroinflammation pathways, including brain cancer, the physiopathology of central nervous system and neurodegenerative diseases. 

Since Prof. Esposito is responsible also for the course in Neuroncology at the University of Messina (Master degree in Biology) and she collaborates with the “Oncologic Institute of the Mediterranean” (IOM, Catania, Italy), her research mainly focused on the understanding and discovering of novel therapeutic strategies for counteracting tumor progression, particularly in considering molecular pathways including inflammatory, apoptosis and angiogenesis by using in vitro and in vivo models of glioblastoma and human samples (serum and tissue) from neuro-oncology patients.