Patrizia Romualdi is Associate Professor in Pharmacology (BIO/14) since 2001 at the Department of Pharmacology and from 2012 at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, Alma mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. Patrizia Romualdi graduated with Honors in Pharmacy at the University of Bologna in 1982. She moved to the Uniformed Services of the Health Sciences in Bethesda USA to work with Prof. Brian M. Cox (the discoverer of the endogenous opioid beta-endorphin) until the end of 1987. She then achieved the Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Bologna in 1990 under the supervision of Prof. Sergio Ferri working on the molecular mechanisms underlying the role of the endogenous opioid peptides in several CNS functions, both in in vivo and in vitro models. On October 1990 she started her independent career at the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Bologna , as Researcher (Assistant Professor). From 2001 she is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology: now, since 2012, she is part of the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology. She has been member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology since 2001. Now, she is a member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Biotechnological, Biocomputational, Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences. Visiting Professor in 1992 at the NIH, Bethesda USA, at the Semmelweiss University School of Medicine (in 1996) in Budapest, Hungary, where in 2012 she was awarded with Sodalem Honoris Causa of the Hungarian Academy of Science and she became an Onorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology. She has contributed to several national and international research programs with funds from public and private sources. The main research interests is Molecular Neuroscience/Neuropharmacolog, focusing on transcriptional gene regulation and epigenetic mechanisms of neuropeptides in relation to pathological conditions, such as chronic pain, substance use disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy. She has authored 107 papers on international journals as well as several book chapters. She has tutored more than 100 Laurea and 30 Doctorate theses. She has given several talks at Italian universities and foreign academic institutions , national congresses and international conferences. Since 2018 she is the delegate for Foreign affairs of the Dept Pharmacy and Biotechnology and she has been nominated Delegate of the Science Area of the university of Bologna for the Project UNA EUROPE.
