Maria Paola Costi has completed her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, in the year 1989 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and is a visiting scientist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Life Science at Unimore. She has published more than 85 papers in international journals, many patents and serving as an Editorial Board Member of a few journals in the field. She is a Board Member of translational science in oncology group of the MITO network and WG leader of drug discovery and development of EUTROC. She is a Coordinator/scientific responsible of some FP European projects in the area of drug discovery in cancer and parasitic diseases (www.lights.eu, www.optobacteria.eu, www.nmtrypi.eu). Maria Paola Costi has completed her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, in the year 1989 from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and is a visiting scientist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Department of Life Science at Unimore. She has published more than 85 papers in international journals, many patents and serving as an Editorial Board Member of a few journals in the field. She is a Board Member of translational science in oncology group of the MITO network and WG leader of drug discovery and development of EUTROC. She is a Coordinator/scientific responsible of some FP European projects in the area of drug discovery in cancer and parasitic diseases (www.lights.eu, www.optobacteria.eu, www.nmtrypi.eu).

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