Laurea (M.S.) in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Parma (Italy) in 1990. Full Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Parma since 2001. Coordinator of of the PhD Course in Drugs Sciences and President of the PhD School in "Biological, Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences" in Parma. Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journals ChemMedChem and Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. Member of the Executive Commitee of the ULLA Consortium (European University Consortium for Pharmaceutical Sciences). He is author of more than 200 articles on international scientific journals, which received more than 8500 citations (H-index 48). He leads the group of Drug Design and Discovery at the Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e del Farmaco - University of Parma, applying quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR), molecular modeling, chemical synthesis and bioanalytics techniques to medchem projects. The principal research lines regard: melatonin receptor ligands; covalent inhibitors of enzymes that affect the metabolism of endocannabinoids and releted lipids; kinase inhibitors and compounds that disrupt the activation of receptor tyrosine kinases.