Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Marco Biggiogera
University of Pavia, Italy

Marco Biggiogera graduated in Biological Sciences at the University of Pavia and obtained his Ph.D in 1987. He was a Research Staff member at the Centre for Electron Microscopy at the University of Lausanne for seven years. He is presently a Full Professor of Cytology and Histology in Pavia. His research focuses on RNA transcription and modification in different tissues and cell models, as studied by cytochemical techniques applied to electron microscopy and has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. He is the Italian member of the International Committee of the Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus and a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Histochemistry.

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Editor

Manuela Malatesta
University of Verona, Italy

Manuela Malatesta graduated in Biology (honors) at the University of Urbino, and she was Research Staff member at the Centre of Electron Microscopy of the University of Lausanne. She is Associate Professor of Human Anatomy at the University of Verona. Her research interests in cell biology concern muscle atrophy and dystrophy, nanomedicine, ageing and cell/tissue regeneration, as studied mainly by histochemical techniques at light and electron microscopy, and co-authored about 150 peer-reviewed papers. She is member of the board of the Società Italiana di Scienze Microscopiche (SISM), and of the scientific board of the Nuova Federazione Italiana di Ossigeno-Ozono.

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Editorial Board

Claudio Casali, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Italy |
Lucio Cocco, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy |
Katia Cortese, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Italy |
Anna Cleta Croce, Italian National Research Council, Institute of Molecular Genetics (CNR-IGM), Pavia, Italy |
Grigory Demyashkin, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Roberta Di Pietro, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy |
Elisabetta Falcieri, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino, Italy |
Francesco Fazi, Department of Human Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
Masahiko Harata, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Japan
Pavel Hozak, Laboratory of Biology of the Cell Nucleus, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic |
Zbigniew Kmiec, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland |
Romina Mancinelli, Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopaedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
Nadir M. Maraldi, Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, University of Bologna, Italy
Francisco Javier Medina, Biological Research Centre, Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Fabrizio Michetti, Department of Neuroscience, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy |
Luca M. Neri, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara, Italy |
Stefano Ratti, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy |
CarloAlberto Redi, National Academy of Sciences, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy |
Federica Riva, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Italy |
Christian Schöfer, Department for Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria |
Shunichi Shibata, Department of Maxillofacial Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan |

Managing Board of the Italian Society of Histochemistry for the years 2026-2029

Stefano Ratti (President), University of Bologna, Italy
Federica Riva (vice-President), University of Pavia, Italy
Katia Cortese (Secretary), University of Genoa, Italy
Luca M. Neri, University of Ferrara, Italy
Francesco Fazi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Roberta Di Pietro (past-President), University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy