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Italians

nat Natalina Quarto
Senior Scientist at the Department of Surgery, Stanford University. She is the first author of an important research published on PNAS.

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.

Francesca Malfatti
Postdoctoral fellow in the Azam laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). IRPE Prize winner 2010 in marine ecology.

Marisa Roberto
Associate Professor in the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at the Scripps Research Institute she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama.

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Gabriele Boccaccini The coordinator of the newly founded Italian Scientists and Scholars in America Online Encyclopedia (ISSA) talks about this outstanding endeavor and its cultural value
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Dario Marchetti Dr. Dario Marchetti - Member of Scientific Advisory Board Professor, Departments of Pathology and Molecular and Cellular Biology; Director, Cell Search CTC Core Facility Baylor College of Medicine, BCM. Research Interests: The biology and mechanisms of brain metastasis in melanoma and breast cancers.
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Marco Tedesco Marco Tedesco is an assistant Professor at the City College of New York, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as a research scientist affiliated with the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County.
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Stefano Soatto How many forks in the road can possibly separate a scientist from her or his inner calling? Nobody really knows, but for Stefano Soatto, currently a Computer Science professor at UCLA, there were at least four major turning points before getting where he is now: the UCLA Vision Lab.
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farsi Alessandro Farsi
PhD student, Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He took part to an important research published on Nature.

daraio Chiara Daraio
Professor of Aeronautics & Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology was selected as one of the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science Magazine (2010) and as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator (2010).

Cristina Alberini Professor Neuroscience, Structural and Chemical Biology, Psychiatry. After training in biology and immunology, I have now focused my interest on how the brain changes in response to external and internal stimuli.
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Fabio Pamolli
Director of IMT Institute For Advanced Studies, Lucca published an interesting article on Corriere della Sera about Italian university and research and about evaluation criteria.

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Chiara Gabbi / Stefania Mondello These two brilliant young researchers tell us about their personal experience and their motivation to activate Young ISSNAF – Young Investigators Network coming soon
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Pietro Musumeci Pietro Musumeci received a degree in physics, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", in 1998; won the Award "Enrico Persico" Academia Nazionale dei Lincei at age 21, and received both a Master of Science in Physics (1999) and a PhD (2004) at UCLA.
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Laura Perin Laura Perin is a young Italian scientist. Ten years after graduating from the University of Padua, Laura has set up her lab at the Saban Research Institute Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, where she does important research with stem cells for the regeneration of the kidney.
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Irene Tinagli Irene Tinagli is a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. She works with professor Richard Florida, who currently works at Rotman Business School and is the author of the best seller "The rise of the Creative Class," widely known for his ideas on economic competitiveness, demographic trends, and cultural and technological innovation.
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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.

2011-10-03 Alessia Pallaoro
Postdoctoral fellow at UCSB's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry published an article about a new technology for the identification of cancerous prostate cells in bodily fluids.

Piero Anversa In May 2011, Nature announced his discovery that the human lung stem cells are able to regenerate alveoli, bronchioles and blood vessels. In 2008, while studying the bone marrow cells, he discovered the presence of stem cells in the heart.
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Cristiana Rastellini Cristiana Rastellini, MD, Professor at UTMB's Texas Transplant Center has been named one of the 10 most powerful mothers working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by Working Mother's magazine
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Emanuela Barzi Emanuela Barzi is an engineer and physicist working in the cutting-edge field of Superconductivity at Fermilab near Chicago. Barzi grew up in Bruxelles (Belgium), received degrees at the University of Pisa, both in Engineering and Physics.
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Marisa Roberto Marisa Roberto is an associate professor at the Scripps Research Institute and a member of the Scripps Research Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, Pearson Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, and the Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Institute.
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Riccardo Lattanzi Riccardo Lattanzi is a research fellow at the Center for Biomedical Imaging of the New York University Langone Medical Center and also writes about science and university reform in “Tutto Scienze”, the weekly science supplement of the Italian newspaper “La Stampa”.
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Valter Longo Valter Longo is an Associate Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences and the Hanson Chair of Biogerontology at the University of Southern California (USC).
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