Mariagrazia Grilli
University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Biography
Mariagrazia Grilli received her MD in 1987 at the University of Brescia, Italy. Since 2005, she is Associate Professor of Pharmacology, at University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy, where she directs the laboratory of Neuroplasticity, working on the potential contribution of adult neurogenesis, when disregulated, to neuropsychiatric conditions. As a pharmacologist, her current research activities are aimed at understanding whether adult neural stem cells and their neuronal/non neuronal progeny may represent innovative targets for new chemical entities but also for drugs already in clinic, whose novel properties may potentially help their repositioning and increase our understanding of their therapeutic effects.