During this two-month period, the work of Italian researchers and laboratories published in international scientific journals mostly centered on the fields of neuroscience and oncology. Monitoring of the scientific press (including Science, The Lancet and various journals of the Nature publishing group) revealed that 102 studies conducted by or involving Italian laboratories were published between the beginning of March and the end of April.
Of these, 12 concerned research in oncology, with articles published in Leukemia, Oncogene and the British Journal of Cancer, while 8 related to neuroscience, with associated studies published in Cell Death & Disease and Neuropsychopharmacology.
On the medical front, a major article in The Lancet (on March 23, 2015 – WHO’s new End TB Strategy) was given over to the recently-adopted global strategy to fight TB, as detailed by a team of World Health Organization experts including Mario Raviglione, a member of Aspen Italia’s “Italian talent abroad” group, and the Director of WHO’s Global TB Programme. The strategy was additionally the subject of a piece in the European Respiratory Journal (March 31, 2015 – Towards tuberculosis elimination: an action framework for low-incidence countries). Readers may also be interested in an interview Raviglione previously gave to the Aspen Italian website team, in which he discussed strategies for the control and elimination of this disease (April 20, 2012 – Tuberculosis like AIDS: The war must still be won).
Finally, with regards to mathematics, in a conversation with the Aspen Italia website team, Alessio Figalli – also a member of the Italian talent abroad group and a full professor at the University of Texas at Austin – explains the importance of mathematical research in testing models put forward by other disciplines (April 30 – Why we mathematicians are more reliable than computers).
ARTICLES MONITORED: 102
ITALIAN RESEARCHERS: 471
ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS: 125