Raffaele Pilla
St. John of God Hospital-Fatebenefratelli, Italy
Biography
Raffaele Pilla has received his Master’s degree in Pharmacy at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy in 2005, where he also served internships at the Cell Physiology Laboratory and Molecular Biology Laboratory. Prior, he was an Erasmus Student at Faculté de Pharmacie de Reims in Reims, France. He received his Doctor Europaeus from Pitié-Salpétrière Institute in Paris, France in 2010. He received his PhD in Biochemistry, Physiology and Pathology of Muscle at G. d’Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy in 2010. He was hired as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa, on two research grants funded by the Office of Naval Research (US Navy) and Divers’ Alert Network. He has written and lectured widely worldwide. He has been involved in ongoing research at the University of South Florida with the use of ketone esters.