Dr. Donato Angelino is Post-Doctoral Senior Research Fellow in Prof. Daniele Del Rio’s Lab at the University of Parma (Italy). He completed a Master Science in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Biochemical and Pharmacological Methodologies at the University of Urbino. He previously attended as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
He has skills in purification and characterization of plant-derived compounds from vegetables and evaluation of their bioavailability as well as their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in vitro and in animals. He has been involved in the design and management of human dietary intervention trials, focusing on anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic effects of functional foods.He is currently the senior fellow involved in the JPI-VALID project regarding the identification and quantification, in plasma samples of TUDA subjects, of γ-valerolactones. He is an Editorial Board Member for PharmaNutrition (Elsevier), Heliyon (Elsevier) and has served as Guest Editor for Nutrients. donato.angelino[AT]unipr.it