Adalberto Merighi graduated (with honors) from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Turin, IT. He obtained a Master Phil. in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry at the University of Pavia (IT) and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Royal Post-graduate Medical School of the University of London, UK, today Imperial College London. He was then a Research Fellow in Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School of Boston, USA, being awarded an International Research Fellowship from the Fogarty International Center — NIH, USA. He is now a Professor of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology in the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Turin. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Paris VI, Paris, France, and a Special Volunteer at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, USA. His main research interests concern the processing of nociceptive information in the spinal cord and the regulation of cell proliferation and death during post-natal development of central neurons. In the past years, he has also been involved in the management and organization of research and evaluation procedures at the University of Turin, as the Director of the Department of Veterinary Morphophysiology and Chairman of the Research Committee of the University Senate, and Deputy Rector for Research.