Michele Galluccio is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Calabria (Italy). He earned a master’s degreein Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Summa cum laude (2001) and achieved a doctoral degree in “Cell Biology and activity of drugs in Oncology”at the University of Calabria(2006). He worked at the World Health Organization-Lyon (2008-2009) in the Infection and Cancer Biology group where he wasinvolved in monitoring membrane transporter expression in cancer cell lines. Hisresearchinterests are membrane transporters of nutrients, such as amino acids and carnitine, from plasma and organelle membranes using bioinformatics, recombinant DNA technology, and protein purification.Heis involved in the study of FAD synthaseisoformsand pathologies linked to their alterations. Heis author ofmore than 50publications on peer review journals. He’s guest editor of the special issue “Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide (FAD): Biosynthesis and Function” in the International Journal of MolecularSciences.He's associate Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology –section Synthetic Biology.