The year is off to a good start for our Structural Biology Research Centre, with the arrival of three new Group Leaders following the open recruitment call which opened in April 2020.
Francesca Coscia, an Italian biochemist and Cryo-EM expert currently at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms behind thyroid function and disease. She has already started a collaboration with HT and will be joining full time in May 2021.
Philipp Erdmannis a German chemical biologist and microscopist. After five years as a project group leader at the Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, he has joined HT in February 2021. At HT his lab will focus on the analysis of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) effects using in situ cryo-electron tomography. LLPS is often involved in crucial processes of both transmittable and non-transmittable human diseases, including virus infections and neurodegenerative disorders.
Ana Casañal is a Spanish biochemist and integrated structural biology expert with a focus on Cryo-EM. Since 2014, she has been a postdoctoral researcher leading Cryo-EM projects at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. At HT her group will combine cutting edge Cryo-EM with biochemical and biophysical methods to unravel the mechanisms of mRNA processing machines to help reveal how their deregulation impacts human disease. She will be joining HT in March 2021.
We are excited to have Francesca, Philipp and Ana join HT and we look forward to welcoming them to Milan.
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.
Three young scientists from Human Technopole have, for the first time since its foundation, obtained a doctoral degree while pursuing their research within the institute: Alessandro Vinceti, Davide Castaldi, and Marco Tullio Rigoli, all enrolled in the systems medicine programme of the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM).
Milan also means research, and this year Human Technopole is taking part in the city’s promotional campaign for the Milan Design Week, which will take place from 15 to 21 April 2024.
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