Department of Biomedicine and Prevention

New cure against Leukemia

Rome - 12 September 2018

Here an article about an important Scientific achievement held by Prof. Francesco Lo Coco and his research group.

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Eletto il nuovo Direttore del Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione

Roma - 12 Settembre 2018

Il Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione ieri, 12/09/2018, ha eletto con un voto compatto (82/99 votanti) e molto partecipato (84%) il Prof. Antonio De Lorenzo come nuovo direttore del Dipartimento a partire da 1 Novembre 2018.

Formuliano al neo-Direttore i nostri migliori auguri.

Shangai Ranking - Nursing

Rome - 11 September 2018

Dear colleagues,

An excellent results of the group of Nursing coordinated by Prof. Rosaria Alvaro.

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Signature of the MoU between International Master courses in Protection against Cbrne events and the Abu Dhabi Police

Abu Dhabi, 28 June 2018

Dear colleagues,

The 28 of June 2018 the International Master courses in Protection against CBRNe events of the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the Police of Abu Dhabi GHQ (United Arab Emirates) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the didactic, training and scientific research areas.

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Prof. Lo Coco winner of the Josè Carreras Award

Rome, 22 June 2018 - Prof Francesco Lo Coco is the winner of the 2018 José Carreras Award.
The EHA-José Carreras Award was established to honor leading and active investigators in hematological research and is presented each year to an established and active investigator who has made an important contribution to hematology.
The award is presented in the Opening Ceremony of the Annual Congress, in which the winner is invited to deliver a lecture.
EHA congratulates the winner of the 2018 José Carreras Lecture and Award, Professor Francesco Lo Coco-University Tor Vergata, Rome –Italy for his outstanding contributions to the research and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He is one of the leaders who successfully initiated the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients with arsenic trioxide combined with retinoic acid.
The award was presented June 16 at the European Hematology meeting in Stockholm and is the largest hematology award in Europe.

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CBRNe Master courses - H2020 program

Rome, 11 June 2018 - It is a pleasure announce that the International Master courses in Protection against CBRNe events - University of Rome Tor Vergata have won a second grant research program in the H2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme

#CBRNe Master courses are a partner of the project "MELODY - A harmonised CBRN training curriculum for first responders and medical staff".

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Sport to contrast childhood poverty

ROME -29 May 2018 – On the 29th of May the Association Sport Senza Frontiere ONLUS has organized a conference on "Lo sport come contrasto alla povertà infantile" held at the Salone d'Onore of CONI.

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A new scientific cooperation between Italy and Russia

ROME -18 May 2018 – It is a pleasure present a new scientific cooperation that is born between our Department of Biomedicine and Prevention (PI Prof. Leonardo Palombi and three important Institutes of Moscow.

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A new therapy against leukemia

ROME -11 May 2018 – Mom and son saved thanks to the therapy of Prof. Lo Coco.

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Mission sustainability: CARDIMIRAX and ANIMA

ROME -30 March 2018 – It is a pleasure announce that two project presented by the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention have been financed with the funding program for sustainability (2017) of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Greetings to Florence Malisan PI for the CARDIMIRAX project and Marco Barchi PI for the ANIMA project

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Young Investigators Day 2018

ROME -03 March 2018 –Wednesday March 7 was the Department Young Investigators Day 2018. The event, organized, as last year, by Prof. Roberto Testi with the help of an Organizing Committee composed by members of the Research Commission, started with a short introduction by the Rector, Prof. Giuseppe Novelli, and by Prof. Francesco Lo Coco.

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Seminar of Prof. Hosin

Rome — 02 February 2018 — The Department of Biomedicine and Prevention host a seminar on "Secondary Traumatization and Mental Health of Staff working in Emergency Settings" held by Prof. Amer Hosin (Professor of Trauma Psychology & Child Psychiatry and Senior Academic Advisor, Emergency and Public Safety Department, ADP, GHQ Abu Dhabi Police).

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Seminar of the Ministry of Health for the Iraqui Kurdistan Region

Rome — 11 January 2018 — A seminar of Dott. Rekawt Hama Rasheed, Ministry of Health of the Iraqui Kurdistan Region took place at the Dept. of Biomedicine and Prevention of the University of Rome Tor Vergata

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Department of Biomedicine and Prevention on the journal "Il Sole 24 Ore"

Rome — 11 December 2017 — An interesting article reporting, in two pages, the results and activities of our Department has been published on the Journal "Il Sole 24 ORE"

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The OPCW-Hague Award 2017

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 13 November 2017 — The Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), H.E. Ahmet Üzümcü, is pleased to announce the decision of the OPCW-The Hague Award Committee to honour the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) from Algiers, Algeria, and the International Master Courses in Protection Against CBRNe (Chemical-Biological-Radioactive-Nuclear-explosive) Events at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, as joint recipients of the 2017 OPCW–The Hague Award.

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Emergency Medicine Conference

We want to open this news with an official acknowledgment to the Abu Dhabi Police Corp and to Prof. Amer Hosin for the official invitation that allowed an Italian Delegation to participate at the second International Conference on Emergency Medicine Conference , held in Abu Dhabi the 23-25 October.

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The Department on Research Gate

OTHER NEWS

Tor Vergata: The MYC‐interfering polypeptide, Omomyc, impairs the carcinogenic potential of human glioblastoma stemlike cells (GSCs)

ROMA – Cancer stemlike cells are key to cancer development and therapy. The MYC‐interfering polypeptide, Omomyc, impairs the carcinogenic potential of human glioblastoma stemlike cells (GSCs) and affects proper MYC genomic localization. This indicates that the gene regulatory nodes determining GSC identity are MYC dependent.

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Pilot Project for a system of health monitoring and surveillance in Kurdistan

Funded by the “Cooperation and Development Agency” of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Italy, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government, is running an innovative and outstanding project to improve human health, to safeguard human dignity, to train local healthcare professionals...
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AIRC-FIRC Guido Venosta Prize Awarded to Prof. Francesco Lo Coco of Rome’s “Tor Vergata” University

Prof. Francesco Lo Coco (Full Professor at the Department of Biomedicine and Prevention of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and awarded the Venosta Prize for his studies on acute promyelocytic leukemia) was previously the winner in the Health Section of the 14th edition of the Sapio Award for Italian Research (Premio Sapio)
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Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Study Published in Nature Neuroscience

A European study conducted by the University of Leuven, Belgium and the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, in conjunction with researchers from the VIB in Belgium and the CNCR in the Netherlands, has investigated the possibility ... read more

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