Dr. Alessandro Maugeri currently works as a Researcher in Biochemistry at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Applied Biology and Experimental Medicine at the University of Messina in 2021. He was a Research Fellow of “AIRC Foundation” at the Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro from 2022 to 2023. He has published 40 papers with 1338 citations and has an h-index of 22 (Scopus, 8 December 2025). His research topics mainly include the study of molecular pathways of natural products in oncology, inflammation, neurodegeneration, through in vitro and cell-free experimental models.