The researches of Prof. Mauro Ballero are steered in the ethnobotany and phytochemistry. He mainly is interested in extraction of molecules from endemic plant to value their biological activity. A particular attention is turned also at the study of relationship between plants and environment, too.

Mauro Ballero has been Professor of Pharmaceutical Botany from 2002.
M. Ballero was the Director of the “Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Studio dei Metabiliti Secondari di origine naturale” between University of Cagliari, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, University of Novara.

MARQUEZ N., SANCHO R., BALLERO M., BREMNER P., APPENDINO G., FIEBICH B., HEINRICH M., MUNOZ E. Imperatorin inhibts T-Cell proliferation by targeting the Transcription factor NFAT. Planta Med. 70: 1-6, 2004
APPENDINO G., PROSPERINI S., VALDIVIA C., BALLERO M., BILLINGTON R.A., STERNER O., SERCA-Inhibiting activity of C-19 Terpinolides from Thapsia garganica and their possibile biogenesis. J. Nat. Prod. 68:760-765, 2005
APPENDINO G., AVIELLO G., BALLERO M., FATTORUSSO E., SANTELIA F., TAGLIALATELA-SCAFATI O., Cytotoxic germacrane sesquiterpenes from aerial parts of Santolina insularis. J. Nat. Prod. 68: 1360-1369, 2005
CALZADO M.A., SCHMID LUDI K., FIEBICH B.L., BEN-NERIAH Y, BACHER S., MUNOZ E., BALLERO M., PROSPERINI S., APPENDINO G., SCHMITZ M-L. Inhibition NF-kappaB activation and exspression of inlammatory mediators by polyacetylene spiroketals from Plagius flosculosus. Biochim Biophys Acta 1729:88-93, 2006
RUBIOLO P., MATTEODO M., RICCIO G., BALLERO M., CHRISTEN P., FLEURY-SOUVERAIN S., VEUTHEY JL and C. BICCHI. Analytical discrimination of poisonous and nonpoisonous chemotypes of giant fennel (Ferula communis L.) through their biologically active and volatile fractions. J. Agric., Food Chem. 54:7556-7563, 2006