In January, the majority of publications concentrated their reporting on Italian laboratories in the fields of Medicine and Biotechnology.
The principal international scientific magazines (Science, Nature, PNAS-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, National Science Review and Scientific Reports placed on the top 5 for scientific impact according to SCImago Journal Rank) included 9 studies dedicated to medicine published in PNAS and Scientific Reports. These studies were carried out with contributions from Italy’s leading universities (Milan and Milan-Bicocca, Rome La Sapienza, Trento, Bolzano, Padua, Palermo, Bari) and from GSK Vaccines, in Siena; hospitals, such as the Rovereto and San Gerardo hospitals, in Monza; Scientific Institutes for Research and Healthcare, like the Centro Cardiologico, in Monzino, and the Fondazione Don Gnocchi, in Milan.
Seven biotechnology studies have been published in Scientific Reports and PNAS. The studies were carried out by the Universities of Bolzano, Verona, Pavia, Pisa, Carlo Bo, in Urbino, the Politecnica delle Marche, along with ENEA, in Rome, and IIT, in Genoa.
Nature and Science magazines also included memories of Riccardo Giacconi, the Italian astronomer who “opened the X-ray window onto the Universe” (January 22 – Riccardo Giacconi (1931-2018) – Astronomer who opened the X-ray window onto the Universe.; January 25 – Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018).
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ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS: 49