Werdegang:
1963–1966: Assistant Professor, University of Padua
1966: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, UK
1967–1969: Research Fellow, Department of Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania
1970–1975: Associate Professor, University of Padua
1976–1977: Full Professor, University of Padua
1977–1984: Professor & Head, Department of Medical Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Bern
1984–2005: Professor and Director, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern
2005–Present: Professor Emeritus, University of Bern
2005–2009: Visiting Scientist, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), Tufts University
2009–2018: Senior Scientist, HNRCA, Tufts University
2019–2021: Strategic Initiatives Advisor, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Tufts University
2019–Present: Faculty Member, School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology & Drug Development Program), Tufts University

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Azzi untersuchte die Mechanismen, durch die Vitamin E und Lycopin Prostatakrebs vorbeugen, und entdeckte den Transportträger für Asparaginsäure und Glutaminsäure in Mitochondrien.
Er untersuchte die Rolle von Vitamin E über seine antioxidativen Eigenschaften hinaus und hob dessen Bedeutung für die Zellsignalisierung, Genregulation und Krankheitsprävention hervor.

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Aspects of Medicine und Aspects of Molecular Medicine

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:

• Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences (1994)
• Corresponding Member, Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1999)
• Honorary PhD, University of Buenos Aires (2001)
• Oxygen Club of California Award (2001)
• Vitamin Preis, Gesellschaft für angewandte Vitaminforschung (2002)
• Professor Emeritus, University of Bern (2005)
• Honorary PhD, University Roma Tre (2012)
• Volunteer Professor, University of Miami Medical Faculty (2014)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Free Radical Research Europe (2014)
• IUBMB Lifetime Service Award (2015)
• The Nencki Award (2016)

Ausgewählte Publikationen:

• Loschen, G., Azzi, A., Richter, C., & Flohé, L. (1974). Superoxide radicals as precursors of mitochondrial hydrogen peroxide. FEBS letters, 42(1), 68-72.
• Boscoboinik, D., Szewczyk, A., Hensey, C., & Azzi, A. (1991). Inhibition of cell proliferation by alpha-tocopherol. Role of protein kinase C. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 266(10), 6188-6194.
• Azzi, A., & Stocker, A. (2000). Vitamin E: non-antioxidant roles. Progress in lipid Research, 39(3), 231-255.
• Brigelius-Flohé, R., Kelly, F. J., Salonen, J. T., Neuzil, J., Zingg, J. M., & Azzi, A. (2002). The European perspective on vitamin E: current knowledge and future research. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 76(4), 703-716.
• Azzi, A. (2007). Molecular mechanism of α-tocopherol action. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 43(1), 16-21.
• Azzi, A. (2024). Oxidative Stress: Cannot be Measured, Localized, Prevented, or Treated. Medical Research Archives, 12(2).