Vanessa Castelli is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Italy. She received her Ph.D. degree in Clinical Medicine and she is focused on potential therapeutic approaches to brain repair (mainly nutraceuticals, stem cell-based), using in vitro as well as in vivo models. She is also a professor in Pharmacology and Neuropharmacology.