Oncology and neuroscience are the fields in which Italian researchers and laboratories tend to publish the most. Monitoring International scientific magazines like Science, the Lancet and papers published by the Nature group, has shown that in the period 1 May to 30 June, Italian laboratories have completed 102 research projects.
Of these, 17 involved cancer research, with articles published in Leukemia, Oncogene and the British Journal of Cancer. There have also been 11 articles published on research of a neuroscientific nature in periodicals such as Cell Death and Disease and Neuropsychopharmacology.
This was also the subject on which the Aspen website interviewed Cristina Alberini, a neuroscientist and professor at New York University. She is studying the biological mechanisms that lead to the formation of new memories, and in 2011, she identified the effects that the protein called IFG-II, which is produced by the brain, can have in reinforcing memory function and in fighting diseases such as Alzheimer’s and autism.
ARTICLES MONITORED: 95
ITALIAN RESEARCHERS INVOLVED: 373
ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS INVOLVED: 110