Giovanni Scapagnini is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Medicine and Health Science at the University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. He graduated in 1992 from the School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Catania, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 2000. He has also worked as a Visiting Scientist with the Department of Surgical Research, Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, Harrow, UK (1999), and with the Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Health in Bethesda, M.D., USA (2000). He was previously employed as an Assistant Professor at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Rockville, MD, and at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Italian National Research Council. He also worked as a Visiting Scientist at the NINDS, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, and at the Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, Harrow, UK. Since 2004, he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland (Institute of Human Virology), Baltimore, MD. He is the Vice-President of the Italian Society of Nutraceuticals SINUT. He is the Scientific Director of the Inter-University Consortium “SannioTech” in Apollosa (BN), Italy. He has 171 publications with 9083 citations and an h-index of 52 (Scoups, 31 October 2023).