**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Silvana Hrelia** graduated with a degree in Chemistry and completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Bologna, where she is now a full-time professor of Biochemistry. Her research interest covers the field of cellular and nutritional biochemistry. Her studies are focused on the protective/preventive role of nutraceutical bioactive components in the diet, and the prevention/ counteraction of chronic degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Prof. Hrelia is the author of more than 160 peer review papers in international journals, and has participated in national and international (EU FP VII and Horizon 2020) projects. She was the Coordinator of the Nutritional and Environmental Biochemistry Group of the Italian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and she is now a member of the Board of the Society.

**Cristina Angeloni** is a professor of Biochemistry at the School of Pharmacy, at the University of Camerino, Italy. She received her MS degree in Computer Science in 1992, her MS degree in Food Science and Technology in 2000, and completed her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Physiopathology of Aging in 2005. She also has a Master's degree in Bioinformatics, which she completed in 2005. She completed all of these qualifications at the University of Bologna, Italy. Prof. Angeloni is the author of four book chapters and more than seventy peer reviewed articles. The main focus of her research is the study of the mechanisms of action of dietetic natural compounds in counteracting neurodegeneration and delaying the aging process. In particular, she studies radical scavenging activity, the induction of phase II enzymes, the inhibition of apoptosis, and the modulation of signal transduction pathways by natural compounds, in in vitro and in vivo models.
