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Through two new joint projects, BIOTECHNET and WE-STAR, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), together with the ICGEB, are providing resources for candidates from the Horn of Africa and for African women scientists.
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ICGEB Cape Town Group Leader, Dr Georgia Schäfer, Virology – Emerging Viruses Group, has been awarded funding from the South African Medical Research Council as part of the Self-Initiated Research Grants Programme.
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Read about our initiatives to mark this year’s UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and ICGEB award EMPOWER Fellowships: a South-South and Triangular Cooperation programme for women scientists from developing countries.
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Dr. Ranjan Nanda, Group Leader of the Translational Health lab, ICGEB New Delhi studies alternate, noninvasive methods of disease diagnosis.
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Reverting, with regret, to remote seasonal greetings, Lawrence Banks summed up the year and delivered his vision for the future to the ICGEB community in December 2021.
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10 January 2022: a team headed by prof. Serena Zacchigna publishes the latest findings for heart therapy in Nature Communications.
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In January, ICGEB Cardiovascular Biology lab Group Leader Serena Zacchigna presents the study which has produced a new compound contributing to the reversal of lung fibrosis.
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The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and ICGEB partner to offer mobility fellowships to early-career women scientists from Africa.
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“I stepped inside the ICGEB in Trieste for the first time in 1991; an undergraduate student, with no research experience, looking for a laboratory that would guide me in a small thesis project, which I needed to graduate. It never occurred to me then that the ICGEB would become my home for the next five years.”
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Ananda Chakrabarty, Distinguished University Professor, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, passed on 10 July 2020.
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ICGEB’s founding Director, Prof. Arturo Falaschi, his legacy in driving the mission and vision of the International Organisation, to bring “advanced research, training, and technology transfer in genetic engineering and biotechnology to developing and emerging economies” lives on.
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