Professor Giuseppe Di Giovanni, Coordinator of the Malta Neuroscience Network Programme at the University of Malta, has been elected Vice-President of the Mediterranean Neuroscience Society (MNS) during the 6th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Meeting MNS2017 held in Malta between 12 and 15 June.
A total of 450 neuroscience experts, hailing from more than 40 different countries, participated at the meeting. According to the MNS by-law, Prof. Di Giovanni will serve first as Vice-President until he becomes President at the next MNS meeting that will be held in Fez, Morocco in 2019. He succeeds Professor Marc Landry from Bordeaux University, France and Dr Liana Fattore, CNR Italy.
Dr Giuseppe Di Giovanni is a Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry within the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. He is involved in several research projects with European research centres and universities. His research focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of monoaminergic systems in epilepsy, depression and drugs of addiction using electrophysiological, behavioural and a neurochemical approach. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, edited seven books and six special issues of various journals. He is one of the most cited UM authors (more than 4000 times and an H index of 34, source google scholar) in all the disciplines.
A total of 450 neuroscience experts, hailing from more than 40 different countries, participated at the meeting. According to the MNS by-law, Prof. Di Giovanni will serve first as Vice-President until he becomes President at the next MNS meeting that will be held in Fez, Morocco in 2019. He succeeds Professor Marc Landry from Bordeaux University, France and Dr Liana Fattore, CNR Italy.
Dr Giuseppe Di Giovanni is a Professor at the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry within the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. He is involved in several research projects with European research centres and universities. His research focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of monoaminergic systems in epilepsy, depression and drugs of addiction using electrophysiological, behavioural and a neurochemical approach. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, edited seven books and six special issues of various journals. He is one of the most cited UM authors (more than 4000 times and an H index of 34, source google scholar) in all the disciplines.
Prof. Di Giovanni is Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious book series The Receptors by Springer, USA and serves as associate editor in neuroanatomy and neurochemistry for the Journal of Neuroscience Methods by Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands and CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics by Wiley. He is Editor-in-Chief of Xjenza Online, the Journal of the Malta Chamber of Scientists.
MNS, an umbrella organisation, has been created to support and help strengthen all initiatives that bring together Mediterranean scientists with those in the rest of the world. The Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Meeting is part of that effort. MNS works towards three main objectives:
- to strengthen exchanges between Mediterranean neuroscientists
- to promote education in the neurosciences and increase public awareness of progress made
- to sustain the Mediterranean Neuroscience Conference.
To know more about MNS visit www.mnsociety.net.