Role
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and former Rector of the University of Cagliari
Bio
After graduating in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cagliari, Maria Del Zompo specialized in Neurology and began her academic career at the same university as an assistant professor. Between 1979 and 1982, she spent over two years at the Biological Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, USA.
In 2000, she became a full professor of Pharmacology at the University of Cagliari. She served as vice-rector from 2005 to 2007 and as rector of the University from 2015 to 2021. In 2022, she was appointed Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at the University of Cagliari.
His clinical and research activity in the field of neuroscience concerns basic and clinical neuropsychopharmacology and the psychiatric genetics of mood disorders, with particular attention to bipolar disorder and suicidal behavior, migraine, cluster headache, and Alzheimer's disease.
She also studies pharmacogenetics and the genetic basis of drug response and adverse reactions. She is a founder of the International Consortium on Lithium Genetics and the International Group for the Study of Lithium Treated Patients. She currently conducts outreach activities in schools, associations, and science festivals on neuroscience and equal rights.
Author of numerous publications, she has international scientific collaborations in the fields of genetic and psychopharmacological research.