Former tenured Full Professor of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the Univ. of Manitoba, Dementia Research Chair, and Senator Everett Chair for Alzheimer’s Research at the St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre. Immediate past Chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism, & Dementia PIA for ISTAART, Alzheimer’s Association (USA). Currently Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Professor, Co-director of the B.R.A.I.N. Center at Nova Southeastern, University, Florida. Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Neurobiology.

Research Scientist at Moffit Cancer Center where she leads translational research projects with scientific expertise in bone cancers.
She earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy.

Distinguished University Professor and Chair in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology in the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida.
Santo holds a medical doctorate from the Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy.