IIT neuroscientist awarded by Brain&Behaviour Research Foundation
Alessandro Gozzi and his research team based at CNCS – IIT in Rovereto awarded by the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation to study how imbalances in regional excitatory and inhibitory functions may lead to abnormal communication between brain regions in schizophrenia or autism.
Cracking the Neural Code for Sensory Perception
Panzeri and Fellin on Neuron, within the framework of the Human Brian Project, the Brain Initiative, and of the frontiers research programme of the European Research Council (ERC)
Nanoparticles Enhance Light Sensitivity in Eyeless Animals: potential biomedical applications to rec
The findings demonstrate a biocompatible approach toward enhancing photoresponse in living organisms while avoiding invasive implementation techniques and opens new therapeutic approaches in neuroscience
Genetics material once considered junk: the non coding RNAs
The Book “Essentials of Noncoding RNA in Neuroscience: Ontogenetics, Plasticity of the Vertebrate Brain“, Editor Davide De Pietri Tonelli, Group leader of the Neurobiology of microRNA lab (IIT, Genova) will be published by Elsevier next June
Season’s greetings: the IIT Mannequin challenge “Moving to the Future”
Even the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia for Christmas 2016 was won by one of the most viral challenges on the web: the mannequin challenge. Researchers, administrative and research support staff took part to this challenge became so popular on the web.
ReHand Project at IROS 2016
The project ReHand, exoskeletonal rehabilitation hand developed at the Center for Sustainable Futures IIT in Turin (Italy), has been selected among finalists at 2° Entrepreneurship Forum and Startup Contest held during IROS 2016 in Daejeon, South Korea
NEW JOINT-LAB MOOG@IIT
Moog invests in a new joint-lab MOOG@IIT for the development of next generation technologies for autonomous robots. Investments by Moog will be devoted to equipment and staff.
Four new tenure track position available at IIT in Italy
IIT opens four international tenure track positions on different research areas for high ranked scientists in 4 italian cities: Turin, Genoa, Naples and Rome
IIT in the top 100 research “rising stars” in the world on Nature
With the best performance improvement among Italian Institutes, IIT has been ranked by the journal Nature among the 100 research institutes and universities in the world that in the period 2012-2015 have published scientific articles in high impact journals
Alessandro Chiolerio awarded by the journal Microelectronic Engineering
The journal Microelectronic Engineering selected Alessandro Chiolerio, IIT researcher, among the finalists of the Young Investigator Award and Lectureship 2016.