Aifa Presidency, Schillaci proposes the pharmacologist Robert Nisticò - Healthcare. He is Principal Investigator of the Neuropharmacology Laboratory, European Brain Research Institute - Rita-Levi Montalcini Foundation.
He received a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (FEI) for Life Sciences in 2002-2003; in 2003-2004: Marie Curies Reintegration Grant (ERG) for life Sciences. In 2012-2015 and 2015-2018 he was Honorary Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.