Luigi Ambrosio has been awarded a grant from the MIUR (the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) 21 Febbraio 2019
He will coordinate a research group involving units from the Universities of Pisa, Pavia, Genoa, Trento and the Federico II University of Naples. The project "Gradient flows, Optimal Transport and Metric Measure Structures" has received € 408,000 within the framework of the PRIN 2017 call .
In orbit around the nanoworld, hunting for molecule 11 Febbraio 2019
Researchers at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), led by Prof. Francesco Cardarelli, go hunting for signals inside the cells, chasing and capturing with light the structures that emit them. Now the MIUR judges these ideas and these preliminary results of "relevant national interest" and funds Prof. Cardarelli with half a million euros, as t…
The Miur is funding the research projects of two professors of Contemporary History 11 Febbraio 2019
Ilaria Pavan and Silvio Pons were the winners for two project "The welfare-warfare nexus. The Italian experience in transnational perspective: total wars, citizenship and the transformation of the welfare state” (Pavan) and "How Communism went global. Building connections between Soviet, European, and African communists, 1920s to 1960s " (P…
A novel therapeutic target for Alzheimer Disease 7 Febbraio 2019
The team coordinated by Dr. Cristina Di Primio at Laboratory of Biology (Bio@SNS) discovered a new function of Tau protein: a small amount of Tau localizes in the neuronal nucleus and modulates the expression of genes involved in the pathology.
Towards the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of a rare genetic disease 6 Febbraio 2019
Annalisa Pastore has been awarded a grant from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research within the framework of the PRIN 2017 call (funds granted to “Projects of Relevant National Interest”). The project 'The role of frataxin in iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis' received over half a million (587.000 Euro)
Prof. Andrea Giardina takes on the functions of Director 18 Gennaio 2019
Until the election of the new Director, Prof. Andrea Giardina, Deputy Director of the Scuola Normale, holds the highest institutional position for the ordinary administration, as envisaged by the Statute, and takes on the legal representation of the SNS.
The call for 67 places for PhD students has been published. 18 Gennaio 2019
The Postgraduate course, equivalent to the PhD, is a highly qualifying course of study, which the Scuola Normale established for the first time in 1927 (the first in Italy).
Capturing the physics of life on dynamic subcellular systems: 4D nanoscopy 17 Gennaio 2019
The team coordinated by Prof. Francesco Cardarelli at SNS was able, for the first time, to bring state-of-the-art imaging and analytical tools on the trajectory of a moving, nanoscopic subcellular system. Results are published in ACS Nano.
