Speciale Antonio

Dr. Antonio Speciale is Researcher (RTD-B, SSD BIO/14) at the department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy. He received a degree in Chimica e Tecnologie Farmaceutiche from the University of Messina in 2004. Dr. Antonio Speciale obtained a Ph.D. in Toxicology at the University of Messina in 2009, and completed is training in the Pharmacogenetics Working Group at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA, USA). Dr. Antonio Speciale received a degree as Specialist in Pharmacognosy from the University of Messina in 2013. Dr. Speciale teaches the course of Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoeconomics - Chemotherapy and Immunofarmacology in the Master degree in Pharmacy, and teaches the course of Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy in the Specialization School in Hospital Pharmacy at the department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy. He is the author of 50 publications (research articles, book chapters, and reviews) and 55 conference presentations. His research interests are mainly focused in elucidating the mode-of-action of bioactive compounds by using in vitro cellular models. In particular, his research focuses on natural products and their capacity to modulate cellular adaptive response pathways, such as Nrf2/Keap1 pathway and NF-κB pathway, and in the discovery of natural products-based anticancer agents. Up to November 13, 2018, as downloaded from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) he has got 47 (51 Scopus database) papers, 602 (688 Scopus database, 876 Google Scholar) times cited, 490 without self citations (550 Scopus database), with an Average Citation per Year of 51.92, an Average Citation per Item of 10.42 and an H-index of 15 (15 Scopus database, 17 Google Scholar with i10-index of 26), with a Total Impact Factor of 140.2