Prof. Dr. Irene Paterniti currently works at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy. She received her B.Sc. in Biology and her M.Sc. in Biosanitary curriculum at the University of Messina, Italy, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and her Ph.D. in “Experimental Medicine” at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Messina, Italy, in 2011. She was awarded the Young Scientist Award at the ASPET annual meeting of Experimental Biology 2014 in San Diego and the GALENO AWARD 2017 for clinical and experimental research in Italy. She is a member of the Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF), the Italian Society of Toxicology, the American Society for Pharmacology and the Experimental Therapeutics and Neuroscience Society.