Prof. Elisabetta Meacci

Elisabetta Meacci is a Professor of Molecular Biology at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences “Mario Serio” (DSBSC) of the University of Florence (Italy). She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences in 1986, a master’s in Pharmacology in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry (both at the University of Florence). She worked as a research fellow and associate fellow in the USA at the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.) Bethesda, MD, in the period between 1989 and 1998. Her main research areas are the molecular characterization and function of bioactive molecules (also from fruit, such as Castanea) in skeletal muscle cell biology, mainly focusing on cell degeneration and atrophy.