Carmela Saturnino is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Sciences at the University of Basilicata. She graduated from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France in 1989. From 1991 to 1993, she was a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Paris and, later, the University of Caen, France. Her research interests are design, synthesis, and biological studies and understanding the mechanisms of action of new therapeutic molecules for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. She has more than 191 publications with more than 3739 citations and an h-index of 37 (Scopus, 16 November 2023).