ISSNAF - Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation

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infnasi Thanks to the generous support of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) ISSNAF is offering summer internships in primary North American research facilities. Application deadline: March 1, 2012

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Seattle Chapter Launch Event

01-seattle Due to adverse weather conditions, the Seattle Chapter Launch Event planned fot the 19th of January 2012, 6 P.M., at Harborview Medical Centre, Seattle is temporarily cancelled. A new date for the meeting will be planned.

ISSNAF-Italian MoH Grant Review

PhD and MD not resident in Italy nor affiliated to Italian Institutions are invited to review grant applications in bio-medicine (Bando 2010).
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In the spotlight

Controlled release drug delivery

Engineers at Tufts University School of Engineering have developed a new silk-based microneedle system able to deliver precise amounts of drug over time and without need for refrigeration. An italian researcher,Fiorenzo Omenetto, is the senior author of the paper published in Advanced Functional Material.

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RPC 2012

The XI workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2012) will take place at the INFN Laboratories of Frascati.

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Test for Diabetics

Engineers at Brown University have designed a biologic device that can measure glucose concentration in human saliva. An italian researcher, Domenico Pacifici, is the lead author of the paper published in Nanoletters, a journal of the American Chemical Society.

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AIRC applications grant

How to apply for AIRC Grant. A series of suggestion for the correct writing of an AIRC application.

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Health benefits of exercise

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers discovered that some of the health benefits of excercise might be explained through autophagy. An italian researcher, Viviana Moresi took part to the research published in the journal Nature

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Futuro in Ricerca: Call for proposals

Futuro in Ricerca is a funding initiative sponsored by the Ministry of Education, University and Research with the goal of supporting young researchers in carrying out scientific research projects of excellence. Applications Deadline: February 22 for coordinator of research units, February 29 for Principal Investigator.

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Telethon Career Award

Telethon funds Career Awards to outstanding scientists wishing to establish indipendent laboratories in a public or non profit research institution. Click here for Career Awards Application Guidelines. Applications Deadline: March 5.

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European Career Fair

The 16th European Career Fair will take place on 21-23 January 2012 on the campus of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Cambridge MA (USA).

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Eagle Nebula

The Eagle Nebula as never seen before. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope's 'Pillars of Creation' image of the Eagle Nebula became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Now, two of ESA's orbiting observatories have shed new light on this enigmatic star-forming region.

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Postdoctoral positions

Two postdoctoral positions are available at the European Center for Theoretical studies (ECT)in Nuclear Physics and related areas. The ECT invites applications for two years positions starting in the fall of 2012.

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Research in Italy: what's new?

New calls for proposal for "Progetti di ricerca di interesse nazionale"(PRIN): A letter to Minister Profumo from GRUPPO 2003.

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ERC Advanced Grants

ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields.

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Italians

farsi Alessandro Farsi
PhD student, Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He took part to an important research published on Nature.

Michele Fumagalli
graduate student at the University of California, is one of the astronomers who found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.

porfiri Maurizio Porfiri
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Polytechnic Institute of New York University, has been included in the “Brilliant 10” list of Popular Science in 2010.