Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Solaini

Giancarlo Solaini is a Professor of Alma Mater (Full Professor of Biochemistry) at the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences University of Bologna, Italy. In 1972 he received the Laurea in Chemistry cum laude (5 years), University of Bologna. Since 1974, he has been performing experimental research in the field of Biochemistry at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Bologna, and at the Laboratory of Biochemistry at Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari S. Anna, Pisa, Italy. He was a Post-doc Fellow at Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Warwick, UK, a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London (UK), a Guest Researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Cambridge (UK) to collaborate with Prof. JE Walker (Nobel laureate), at the Department of Ophthalmology, USC, LA (USA), and at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford (UK). His main research interests are fundamental studies on enzyme structure and kinetics, pathogenic mechanisms induced by mutations of mtDNA; ischemia and hypoxia in mitochondrial pathophysiology; cellular bioenergetics, and metabolism in normal and cancer cells. He is a member of the Italian Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society (SIB) and a member of the Italian Group of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics (GIBB).