Dr. Rosaria Maria Pipitone is an academic researcher at the University of Palermo in Palermo, Italy. Her skills and expertise include gene and protein expression profiles in NASH, fibrogenesis, hepatopathies of viral and metabolic origins, hepatocellular carcinoma, and the analysis of SNPS in genes with susceptibility implicated in NFLD development and progression. In addition, her skills and expertise include the evaluation of the effects of the administration of compounds potentially capable of improving the lipid and carbohydrate metabolic profile, as well as steatosis and hepatic fibrosis, on continuous human hepatoma cell lines (HepG2) and on hepatic stellate cells (LX2).