Maria Teresa Ferretti

Maria Teresa Ferretti is a neuroscientist and neuroimmunologist, an expert in Alzheimer’s and gender medicine. In 2016, she co-founded the non-profit organization “Women’s Brain Project” (of which she is currently Chief Scientific Officer), a world leader in the field of the study of sex and gender specificities and the importance of precision in neurological and psychiatric diseases. Dr Ferretti graduated in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technologies at the University of Cagliari (Italy), then studied and worked in England, Canada (where she earned a PhD in Pharmacology and Pharmacological Therapy at McGill University in Montreal), Switzerland and Austria. Her articles have been published in numerous high-impact journals, including Nature, and she is regularly invited by major scientific conferences to lecture on Alzheimer’s disease, precision medicine and the differences between men and women in neurology and psychiatry.Passionate about scientific dissemination and animated by the desire to break the taboo on mental and brain diseases, she was a TED-x speaker in 2019 and 2021. See CV complete.

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