Reentry of the brains: Antonio Di Zazzo returns to Italy after the prestigious international experience
August 17, 2016 - Travels the world to learn with the promise of returning to Italy soon. AND Antonio Di Zazzo, 32 years old from Molise, graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2008 and specialized in Ophthalmology in 2014 at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
During his studies he carried out research at Ucbm in the Ophthalmology laboratory of the Bietti IRCCS Foundation, taking advantage of the opportunity to collaborate with Rita Levi Montalcini's group on Nerve Growth Factor in the ocular surface. This research will take him far: first as Medical Doctor Advisor of the Scuderia Ferrari Racing Team of Formula 1 in the Racing Management Department of Maranello and later in the prestigious post-doctoral education program of the Harvard Medical School.
In Boston, at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Antonio comes into contact with world-class experts in the field of ocular immunology and corneal transplants.
“In the US I understood that brain drain is an obsolete concept in a globalized, multimedia and multi-ethnic world – he says -. Every student must 'go on the run', or rather open up to the complex universe of the scientific world”.
According to Antonio, who now works at the LV Prassad Eye Institute in Visakhapatnam, India, on behalf of the World Health Organization, "mental chains are often stronger than physical ones". Di Zazzo seems to have won both. Now the young man is ready to return to collaborate with the Bietti IRCCS Foundation and with the University of Tor Vergata.
