PERSONAL INFORMATION: - born on March 21, 1957 EDUCATION: - 1980: Graduated in Medicine (cum laude), University of Naples - 1984-1988: Research Doctorate in Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Naples - 1986-1990: Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory of Dr. Jan Wolff, Endocrine Section, CEB, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda (MD), USA ACADEMIC CAREER: - 1988-2002: Researcher at the Institute for Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, CNR, Naples - 1998-2003: member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the International Service Center for Mass Spectrometry of CNR, Naples - 2002: Associate Professor of General Pathology (MED/04) at the University of Molise - 2017: Full Professor of General Pathology (MED/04), Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise TEACHING: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Molise: - Cellular Pathology; - General Pathophysiology; - Immunology and Immunopathology; - Molecular Laboratory Immunology; - Laboratory Immunohematology; - Clinical Pathology; RESEARCH INTERESTS: - cellular and molecular mechanisms and animal models of autoimmune diseases and their animal models, with special regard to autoimmune thyroid disease; - structure-function relationships of human protein autoantigens in relation with the loss of self tolerance: glycosylation, folding-unfolding transitions, adduct formation with the products of lipd peroxidation; - molecular mechanisms of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.