Competition between the Research Units for the best presentation

September 26, 2019 - Also for 2018 the search forUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma is confirmed at the level of best Italian universities. And it does so both in qualitative and quantitative terms with over 500 publications which they exceedun normalized impact factor of 2200. Not only that, 60% of scientific papers appeared in journals belonging to the first quartile of the international Scopus/ScImago ranking.

It was the Research Day held on September 25th that took stock of the University's results, with the participation of researchers who presented their work. The President introduced them Felice Barela, the Rector Raffaele Calabrò, the Director General of the University Andrea Rossi and the General Director of the Polyclinic Paolo Sormani.

Each Research Unit had the opportunity to present the best product 2018 in one minute in front of a jury of scientific communication and dissemination experts: Lucia Ascione, journalist and presenter of Tv2000, Simona Burattini, journalist of TG2, and Pino Insegno, actor, radio host and public speaking expert.

Then press a equal merit the Units of Medical statistics ed Molecular epidemiology in collaboration with Clinical Laboratory Sciences for the study on resistant bacteria in endoscopes used in hospital procedures, the General Surgery Unit for work on nanotechnology and early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and the Gynecology Unit for its predictive method due to the risk of endometrial cancer. Acting as speaker, respectively, prof. Massimo Ciccozzi, dr. Damiano Caputo and dr. Corrado Terranova.

Instead, go to Dr Anna Crescenzi of the Pathological Anatomy Research Unit the recognition for the research enhancement activities: the scholar is in fact co-inventor of two patents filed byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in co-ownership with Italian companies and enhanced over the last two years. The first invention consists of a container preloaded in formalin, which allows you to store pathological anatomy samples in a safe manner, without resorting to systems such as hoods that should be installed on the sampling site. Aimed at improving the diagnostics of pathological anatomy is also cytomatrix, a synthetic matrix designed ad hoc to capture, hold and preserve the biological material from cytological samples with simplicity and practicality.

The Vice President of Ucbm also spoke Davide Lottieri, the Vice Rector for Research Eugenio Guglielmelli, the Research coordinators of the Departmental Faculties Vincenzo Di Lazzaro e Marcella Trombetta, the Deputy Director of the Polyclinic Marta Risari, the head of the Research Area Gianfilippo Capriotti, the Head of the Scientific Directorate of the Clinical Innovation Office Franco Rossi, the Rector's assistant Stefano Anzilotti.

The numbers of the 2018 research