Maria Giulia Battelli, MD, is a retired Professor of General Pathology at the School of Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine-DIMES, now merged into the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences-DIMEC, University of Bologna, Italy. She received her Medical Doctor degree with honors from the University of Bologna in 1970. Her main research lines are the physiopathology of xanthine oxidoreductase and its products, in particular by evaluating the plasma level of XOR in experimental and human liver diseases; toxicity, cytotoxicity, and intracellular routing of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs); aspecific and specific toxicity of XOR or RIPs conjugated with antibodies. She has 86 paper publications with 5266 citations and 14,042 reads (ResearchGate, 25 December 2023) in these areas.