Scientific Advisory Board

Stephen Hanessian, obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Ohio State University.

After seven years at the Parke-Davis Research Laboratories in Ann Arbor, Michigan he accepted a faculty position at the University of Montreal where he has held the McConnell and NSERCC Medicinal Chemistry chairs.

His research interests are in organic, bioorganic, and medicinal chemistry.
He has published nearly 500 papers and 42 patents on aspects of total synthesis of natural products, asymmetric synthesis, design and synthesis of medicinally important compounds, supramolecular assemblies, carbohydrates, reagent design and methodology, and computer assisted organic synthesis. 

• Dow-Lepetit, (Italy) -1969-1988- Director of the Medicinal Chemistry Department
• Glaxo S.p.A., Verona (Italy) -1989-1994 - Director of the Departments of Medicinal, Analytical and Process Research Chemistry.

Pierangelo Geppetti is professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Florence and Head of the Headache Center and Clinical Pharmacology Unit of the University Hospital of Careggi - Florence. He has been associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Ferrara. He is member of the Editorial Board of Physiological Reviews, Pain, Molecular Pain, The Journal of Headache and Pain, Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, Cough  and Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology and has been editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology and referee for a number of pharmacological, neuroscience and respiratory journals.

He is has member of the Board of European Association  for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and is member of the Board of the Italian Association for the Study of Pain and Italian Association for the Study of Headaches.