Cognitive, Neuropsychological and Biological Effects of Oxygen–Ozone Therapy on Frailty: A Study Protocol for a 5-Week, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Prof. Antonino Cattaneo worked as a PhD student at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) with Lamberto Maffei and as a postdoc and staff scientist with Rita Levi-Montalcini (Nobel Laureate for the discovery of NGF) at the CNR Institute of Neurobiology in Rome. He later worked with Cesar Milstein (Nobel Prize laureate for the discovery of monoclonal antibodies) and Michael Neuberger at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK). From 1991 to 2008, he was a Full Professor of Biophysics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste (Italy), where he was Head of the Biophysics Department from 1991 to 1995 and the Deputy Director of SISSA from 1996 to 2001. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Neurobiology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), where he is also the Director of the Biology Lab Bio@SnS. He is the author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and has been the recipient of several awards including the Domenico Marotta Prize (Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta XL), the W. Jansenius Medal (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and the “G. Tartufari” International Prize for Biology (Accademia Nazionale dei  Lincei). He is a member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) and the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta XL, the Academia Europaea and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Since 2018, he has been President of the European Brain Research Institute ‘Rita Levi-Montalcini’.