Giovanna Zappalà, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a Health Scientist Administrator in the Clinical Gerontology Branch of the National Institute on Aging's Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology (DGCG). Dr. Zappalà received her Ph.D. in Experimental Physiopathology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata School of Medicine through trans-institutes collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH); her Degree with highest honors in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutics from the University of Catania School of Pharmacy; and her Master of Public Health from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. As a former recipient of a Government Oncology Research Fellowship in Cancer Angiogenesis, Dr. Zappalà performed her first post-doctoral work at the University of Catania. Afterward, she joined NIH and completed additional post-doctoral research studies in angiogenesis and stem cell differentiation at the National Cancer Institute, and thereafter at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, investigating molecular mechanisms of cancer apoptosis and metabolic dysfunction.

Nutrition and aging, Neurodegenerative disorders