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