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Convenzione Ministries – Human Technopole: National Facilities approved
The Consiglio di Sorveglianza of the Human Technopole Foundation has approved the implementation of five National Facilities, intended as infrastructural facilities with a high technological impact, available to the national research community. As prescribed by the Convenzione stipulated pursuant to Law 160/2019, the approval follows a two-stage public consultation process: the first stage involved representatives […]
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Immune-mediated diseases: different but similar
More than 80 immune-mediated diseases have been identified to date. However, it is unclear whether the same genetic factors underpin their onset. By coupling statistical methods with genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the Soskic group has shown that diverse immune-mediated diseases have distinct genetic patterns that converge on activating the same cells and signalling pathways. Immune-mediated […]
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Marino Zerial appointed as new Human Technopole Director
The Supervisory Board of the Human Technopole Foundation has appointed Marino Zerial as the institute’s new Director. Currently Director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, a research institution he helped found over 25 years ago, Marino Zerial is also an honorary professor at the Faculty of Medicine […]
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Human Technopole: New Early Career Fellows Announced
Which brain connections coordinate the sense of sight with movement, for example maintaining stable vision while walking or moving our eyes? How is cholesterol formed and what functions does it have in its intermediate steps? These are the topics of the research projects awarded the Early Career Fellowship Programme, a call for proposals launched by […]
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Human Technopole awarded ERC Consolidator Grant to study the genome in 3D
Magda Bienko, Group Leader at the Functional Genomics Centre at Human Technopole has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her research project “Radialis”. The project, which has earned a funding of 2 million euros, aims to understand the design principles shaping genome architecture. Within our cells, DNA is folded in a three-dimensional structure. The […]
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