Dr. Adriano Mollica is an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Univ. “G. d’ Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy and PhD in “Pharmaceutical Sciences”. From 2013, he is a member of the Board of PhD program “Biomol. and Pharm. Sciences” and Tutor of several PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. His research interests are focused on opioid peptides, neurodegeneration, treatment of chronic and neuropathic pain, multi-target compounds and nutraceuticals. He is a co-author of 82 papers published in international journals, one European Patent and one Italian Patent. He is currently the “Editor in Chief” of “Current Bioactive Compounds”, and an Editorial Board Member of Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry and of Protein & Peptide Letters.