Among the studies by Italian researchers picked up by major international scientific journals during the reporting period, those dealing with work in the field of oncology were once again well-represented. Indeed, out of a total of 91 studies encountered by the monitoring team, 28 were oncology-related, encompassing the work of 221 scholars across 20 national research centers, with articles appearing in specialist journals of the Nature group, including Cell Death and Disease, Leukemia, the British Journal of Cancer and Oncogene
Also given coverage during the period were studies in genetics (8 articles by 60 researchers at 6 centers), published in titles such as the European Journal of Human Genetics and Gene Therapy.
Readers’ attention is lastly drawn to an interview with Marco Vola, who heads a program developing minimally-invasive cardiac surgery at the Saint-Etienne University Hospital (France). Vola spoke to the Aspen Italia website regarding the results achieved by his team, which only recently performed the first human totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement.
The breakthrough by the Italian surgeon, a member of Aspen’s Italian Talent Abroad group, is described in an article which featured in the American specialist publication The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (First human totally endoscopic aortic valve replacement: An early report), and was also covered by Forbes (March 3 – French Surgeons Perform First Aortic Valve Surgery Without Opening The Chest) and by the French-language press, including L’Orient Le Jour (March 18 – Remplacement valvulaire aortique totalement endoscopique).
ARTICLES MONITORED: 91
ITALIAN RESEARCHERS: 560
ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS: 132