Monica Di Luca
Associate Professor
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Monica DiLuca has been professor of Pharmacology at the University of Milano since 1999.
Graduate in Pharmacology and medicinal Chemistry at the University of Milano. She discussed her PhD thesis at the University of Milano in 1992, and in 1993 she completed a PhD programme in the laboratory of Molecular Biology of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Monica DiLuca is member of Council and Executive committee of several national and international scientific organization. From 2000 to 2006 she performed as secretary general of Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and from 2005 she is Chair of the Western Europe Chapter of IBRO.
She is author of more that 90 scientific publications on peer reviewed journals.
Her primary research interest in related to brain and synaptic plasticity both in physiological and pathological conditions, with the primary aim to apply her basic findings to the cure of neurodegenerative diseases.