Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ferrara. Researcher since 1974. She is the author of over 90 scientific publications on peer reviewed Journals and took out 3 patents.
Her activity as researcher is about the design and the synthesis of biologically active molecules mainly, with a particular interest for heterocyclic compounds from a pharmaceutical and phytopharmaceutical point of view. Her greatest interest is about antifungal agents.
In the last years she also started a new historical research on treatments and remedies for typical diseases of the nineteenth century.