Carmela Parenti is an Associate Professor at the University of Catania. She obtained her degree in Pharmacy with a score of 110/110 cum laude and also received the Federfarma degree prize in 1986. She was qualified as a pharmacist in the same year, and received a research grant from the Toscano-Scuderi Foundation in 1987. In 1989, she specialized in Pharmacognosy at the University of Messina, and earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1993. In 1999, she was confirmed as a Researcher SSD BIO 14 at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Catania. In 2017, she achieved National Scientific Qualification - Band II - Competition Sector 05/G1 Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy. From 1 March 2020 to date, she has been Associate Professor SSD BIO 14 at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences.