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CBRNe Master courses - H2020 program

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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Gianluca Pucciarelli winner of the 2017 CVSN stroke article of the year award

Professor Rosaria Alvaro of our Department is pleased to announce that the Research Assistant for Nursing Sciences, Dr. Gianluca Pucciarelli, has been awarded with the American Heart Association’s “2017 CVSN Stroke Article of the Year Award”.

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Assisted reproduction, the challenge of the Italian researcher​

ROME  – She has the contagious enthusiasm and the incredulity of those who cannot believe of having won, together with her group. One of the three scholars awarded with the Gfi (Grant for Fertility Innovation) 2017, an award wanted and funded by Merck, is the Italian group of Luisa Campagnolo, researcher of Histology and Embryology of the Tor Vergata University of Rome, and her colleague Francesca Gioia Klinger. They work in collaboration with the Centre for Sterility and Assisted Procreation of the Pertini Hospital in Rome, headed by Rocco Rago. A public centre, which deals with basic research.

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A new targeted therapy for acute myeloid leukaemia 
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ROME  – A molecular "target" drug, a new targeted therapy, will soon be available for about a third of the patients with acute myeloid leukaemia. In addition to conventional chemotherapy, this drug (midostaurin) has produced a significant benefit in the survival of patients with this disease, who exhibit specific mutations of a receptor, called FLT3.
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Complexity Variability Assessment of Nonlinear Time-Varying Cardiovascular Control

ROME  – This is the title of a  scientific publication on SCIENTIFIC REPORTS by an international team of experts that include also our Prof. Nicola Toschi

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The Department on Research Gate

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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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