The major research interests are: 1) The study of the high incidence rate of Type 1 Diabetes in Sardinia; from epidemiological studies to experimenthal animal models with NOD mice. 2) The study of the high prevalence of Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency in Sardinia and its consequences for human metabolism, in particular the protective effect of this enzymopathy against coronary artery diseases. 3) Study-population analysis of main risk factors for coronary artery diseases in the randomly selected population of Pula (Cagliari), including genetic analysis for mutations causing Cholesterol Ester Storage Diseases (CESD) with the analysis of the E8SJM mutation in exon 8 of the lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) gene.

Sandro Muntoni has been Professor of Pathology since January 2005. Prior to that he took the Degree in Medicine in 1990 and the Speciality in Internal Medicine in 1995 at Cagliari University Medical School. He was a Research Scientist at the Department of Clinical Immunology, The London Hospital Medical College, Londra, Inghilterra (1991-1992). In 1993 winner of Annual Research Contract for the National Research Council. Then, Research Scientist at the Institute für Arterioskleroseforschung und Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin-Zentrallaboratorium, Direttore Prof. Gerd Assmann, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germania (1995-1996). In 2003 Ph.D. in Experimental and Molecular Pathology, University School of Turin, Italy. Sandro Muntoni was the President of the Sardinian Unit of Italian Society for The Study of Atherosclerosis (S.I.S.A.), during years 2003-2005.

Muntoni Sa, Cocco P, Cucca F, Aru G, Muntoni S. Nutritional factors and worldwide incidence of Type 1 diabetes. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2000); Volume 71, N 6, pp.1525-1529.
Muntoni Sergio, Muntoni Sandro. Genetic influences on serum LDL levels and on Type 1 Diabetes incidence in Sardinia. World Rev Nutr Diet. Basel, Karger (2001); Volume 89, pp. 76-82.
Sandro Muntoni, Karvonen Marjatta, Sergio Muntoni, Tuomilehto Jakko. Seasonality of birth in patients with type 1 diabetes. The Lancet (2002); 359, p. 1246.
Cocco P, Broccia G, Aru G, Casula P, Muntoni Sa, Cantor KP, Ward MH. Nitrate in Community Water Supplies and Incidence of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Sardinia, Italy. J. Epidemiol. Community Health (2003); Volume 57, pp.1-2.
Muntoni Sergio, Muntoni Sandro. Gene - Nutrition Interactions in Type 1 Diabetes. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics. Editors A.P. Simopoulos AP and JM Ordovas, (Karger, Basel). Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics (2004); Vol. 93, pp. 188- 209.
Menotti A, Lanti M, Agabiti-Rosei E, Carratelli L, Cavera G, Dormi A, Gaddi A, Mancini M, Motolese M, Muiesan ML, Muntoni Sa, Muntoni Se, Notarbartolo A, Prati PL, Remiddi S, Zanchetti A. Riskard 2005. New tools for prediction of cardiovascular disease risk derived from Italian populations studies. Nutr. Metab. Cardiovasc. Dis. (2005); 15: pp. 426-440.
Muntoni Sergio, Muntoni Sandro. Epidemiological association between some dietary habits and the increasing incidence of Type 1 diabetes worldwide. Ann. Nutr. Metab. (2006); 50: pp.11-19.
Muntoni Sandro, Cocco Pierluigi, Muntoni Sergio, Aru Gabriella. Nitrate in community water supplies and risk of childhood type 1 diabetes in Sardinia, Italy. Eur. J. Epidemiol. (2006); 21, N. 3: pp. 245-247.
Columbano A, Pibiri M, Deidda M, Cossu C, Scanlan TS, Chiellini G, Muntoni S, Ledda-Columbano GM. The thyroid hormone receptor-beta agonist GC-1 induces cell proliferation in rat liver and pancreas. Endocrinology (2006); 147 (7): pp. 2311-8.
Sandro Muntoni, Heiko Wiebusch, Marianne Jansen-Rust, Stephan Rust, Udo Seedorf, Helmut Schulte, Klaus Berger, Harald Funke, Gerd Assmann. Prevalence of Cholesteryl Ester Storage Disease. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol. (2007), Aug;27(8):1866-8.