Human Technopole’s Director Marino Zerial was invited last week to give the Lectio Magistralis during the inauguration ceremony of University of Genoa’s academic year 2023-2024.
“Building networks is the only way we can aim to solve major problems and challenges. In this sense, HT’s National Facilities represent a unique opportunity to bring added value to the Italian life sciences ecosystem and support the creation of a strong and internationally competitive national community” underlined Director Zerial during his presentations entitled “Human Technopole, the open innovation hub for life sciences” which opened the academic year at the University of Genoa, outlining the upcoming challenges for medical research.
Director Zerial’s presentation provided students and institutions present at the inauguration with an overview of the current status of the HT project as well as the institute’s new research mission aimed at unravelling fundamental mechanisms of biological systems, relevant to human disease, using a multi-scale systems biology approach. Human Technopole researchers will therefore investigate the emergent properties of biological systems across scales and how these evolve.
The lectio was also an opportunity to share information on the upcoming National Facilities, which will support the national community by providing access to state-of-the-art infrastructure, training opportunities and technology development. In turn this will support the development of scientific collaborations with HT researchers and increase the impact of Italian research worldwide.
The inauguration ceremony included welcoming remarks by University of Genoa Rector Federico Delfino, President of the Conference of Rectores of Italian Universities (CRUI) Giovanna Iannantuoni as well as a musical tribute to Fabrizio de André.
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has elected the Dresden and Italian cell biologist Marino Zerial as one of its members. Currently Director of Human Technopole, he is also one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG).
The Harschnitz Group has been awarded a grant from the ItsME Foundation to develop a human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived brainstem model to understand brainstem encephalitis. The ItsME Foundation was founded in 2019 by Jur Deitmers and has its base in The Netherlands, with the goal to fight Meningitis and Encephalitis.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, Italy wins a Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP): our Karthik Ramanadane, Postdoc in the Coscia Group (Structural Biology), will pursue a challenging project on the molecular mechanisms of the thyroid at Human Technopole.
Two research projects from Human Technopole have won the Fondazione Telethon and Cariplo grant to uncover the genetic and molecular mechanisms of acute myeloid leukemia and congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The projects, led by Alice Giustacchini (Group Leader of Genomics) and Emanuele Villa and Nicolò Caporale (Testa Group, Neurogenomics), have been respectively funded with €230,000 and €250,000.
Two Human Technopole researchers have been awarded the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, one of the most prestigious fellowships for early career researchers: Dr. Carlos Jiménez and Dr. Albert Navarro Gallinad. Dr. Navarro Gallinad’s research project, presented today on National Women’s Health Day, will investigate the environmental risks faced by pregnant women by analysing almost 1,000,000 births in Lombardy over the last twelve years. Dr. Jiménez will study how the spatial arrangement of nuclear proteins contributes to optimal cell functioning.
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