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PRIN 2017, 23 projects led by Unifi funded by the Ministry of University

The University ranks fifth among Italian universities by the number of projects coordinated.

The list of 566 research projects of national interest eligible for funding was published by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) (Prin 2017).
The University of Florence has obtained funding for 23 projects of which it is coordinator and 59 of which is responsible for the local unit. In the ranking of Italian universities, Florence ranks fifth in terms of the number of projects coordinated.
"This is a very gratifying result, comments the vice-president for scientific research Marco Bindi, considering that our university, in absolute terms, is seventh in the number of teaching staff among Italian universities. The ranking of the projects admitted to the funding is even more gratifying if we consider the relationship between the number of coordinated PRIN and the total number of teaching staff per university: in this case, Florence rises to third place, a sign that the research conducted at our university responds to high-quality standards."
The scientific directors of the Unifi-led projects are as follows: Annarosa Arcangeli (“Leveraging basic knowledge of ion channel network in cancer for innovative therapeutic strategies - LIONESS”), Piero Baglioni ("Structure and Dynamics of Functional Gels for Conservation of Cultural Heritage"), Lucia Banci ("Integration of cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging techniques for the structural analysis of living-cell machineries from the atomic to the cellular level"), Luca Bindi ("TEOREM deciphering geological processes using Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial ORE Minerals”), Leonardo Boncinelli (“Cognitive Modes, Social Motives and Prosocial Behavior”), David Charles Burr (“Temporal context in perception: serial dependence and rhythmic oscillations”), David Caramelli (“1000 Ancient Italian Genomes: Evidence from ancient biomolecules for unravelling past human population Dynamics”), Elisabetta Cerbai (Unraveling hidden culprits for the cardiac arRHYTHMia burden: Modulation of immunoINflammation and inter-cellular SIGnaling as targets for novel tHerapeuTic approaches), Paola Chiarugi (“Role of nutrients in the epigenetic control of prostate cancer progression”), Andrea Cianchi (“Direct and inverse problems for partial differential equations: theoretical aspects and applications”), Mila De Santis (“Mapping Musical Life: Urban Culture and the Local Press in Post-Unification Italy - MML”), Alberto Del Bimbo (“I-MALL - improving the customer experience in stores by intelligent computer vision”), Derek Boswell Keir (“Distribution of strain and magmatism during rifting”), Claudio Luchinat (“Rationally designed nanogels embedding paramagnetic ions as MRI probes”), Stefano Mancuso (“Partner manipulation in plant-insect relationships”), Maria Rita Manzini (“Models of language variation and change: new evidence from language contact”), Tommaso Pizzorusso (“Metabolic regulatIon of cortical visual procesSing in MiCe and Humans - MISMatCH”), Paola Romagnani (“New strategies for 3D modelling, diagnosis and treatment of acute kidney injury”), Roberta Sessoli (“Quantum detection of chiral-induced spin selectivity at the molecular level”), Andrea Simoncini (“Self- and Co-regulation for Emerging Technologies: Towards a Technological Rule of Law”), Claudiu Trandafir Supuran (“Deciphering the role of Carbonic Anhydrase isoforms in psychiatric disorders”), Alessandro Maria Vannucchi (“Myeloid Neoplasms: an integrated clinical, molecular and therapeutic approach”), Daniele Vignoli (The Great Demographic Recession - GDR).

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24 April 2019
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