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RICERCATORI UNDER 40 FRA ITALIA, USA E CANADA ECCO I 16 FINALISTI DEGLI ISSNAF AWARDS 2017

Saranno premiati l’8 novembre 2017 durante l’evento annuale di ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation), all’Ambasciata italiana di Washington.

Sono i 16 finalisti degli ISSNAF Awards, ricercatori italiani under 40 selezionati tramite un bando in 5 campi di ricerca. Saranno premiati i 5 migliori elaborati.

I settori di ricerca sono la leucemia (Paola Campese Award for Research on Leukemia), scienze ambientali, astrofisica e chimica (ISSNAF Young Investigator Award – Environmental Sciences, Astrophysics and Chemistry), medicina, scienze della vita e cognitive (Hogan Lovells Award for Medicine, Biosciences and Cognitive Science),  matematica e fisica (Annamaria Molteni Award for Mathematics and Physics), ingegneria (Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers).

Ad essi si aggiunge la vincitrice dell’ISSNAF Life Achievement Award, la biologa marina Rita Rossi Colwell, Distinguished University Professor alla University of Maryland, già Director della National Science Foundation dal 1998 al 2004 e fra i membri fondatori di ISSNAF.

 

 

PAOLA CAMPESE AWARD FOR RESEARCH IN LEUKEMIAS

 Erica Bresciani, NIH Research Fellow, Translational anf Functional Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

Role of Runx1 and Cbfb in the development and function of hematopoietic stem cells

Fabiana Perna, Senior Research Associate, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Probing the AML Surfaceome for CAR targets

Marco Ruella, Clinical Instructor, Associate Director Dr. June’s Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

Dual-targeting chimeric antigen receptor T cells to prevent leukemia escape

 

 ISSNAF AWARD FOR YOUNG INVESTIGATORS – ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, ASTROPHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

 Sara Buson, NASA Post-Doc Fellow, NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center

Peering into the barrel of the gun: the Hunt for Black Holes in action

Matteo Cargnello, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering

Artificial enzymes for renewable energy and sustainable production of fuels and chemicals

Camilla Pacifici, NASA Postdoc fellow, USRA at NASA Goddard

The formation of galaxies: from the Big Bang to our Milky Way

 

HOGAN LOVELLS AWARD IN MEDICINE, BIOSCIENCES AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Angela Bononi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Thoracic Oncology

Germline BAP1 mutations impair IP3R3-mediated Ca2+ flux to mitochondria and induce a Warburg effect

Giuliano Iurilli, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology

Flexible sensory processing in the ventral striatum

 Sara Lovisa, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Cancer Biology

Unraveling the functional role of endothelial–to–mesenchymal transition in kidney fibrosis

Andrea Piunti, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Epigenetic therapy for the treatment of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG)

 

ANNA MARIA MOLTENI AWARD IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

 Alessandro Arlotto, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Mathematics, and Statistical Science, Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business

Probabilistic analysis of sequential decision problems

Giulia Saccà, Assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT

Hyper-Kähler geometries     

Anna Tenerani, Assistant Researcher, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences

Energy conversion processes in the Universe

 

FRANCO STRAZZABOSCO AWARD FOR ENGINEERS

Antonio D’Amore, Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Engineering heart valves: bioinspired control of macro-scale morphology, mechanics and microstructure

 Marco Pavone, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Algorithmic Foundations for Real-Time and Dependable Spacecraft Motion Planning

 Emmanuele Ravaioli, Toohig postdoctoral research fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Quench protection system of the high luminosity LHC inner triplet circuit

2017 ISSNAF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Rita Rossi Colwell, PhD Chair, Canon U.S. Life Sciences; Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

 

 

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