Multiple sclerosis research at the English university after graduating in Medicine and Surgery at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
13 July 2017 - 27 years old, a degree in Medicine and Surgery fromUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and a Master of Philosophy in Clinical Neurosciences from Queens' College London. The former student UCBM Giulio Volpe, thanks to a scholarship from the Campus Bio-Medico Alumni Association, flew to Cambridge where he carried out research work that recently appeared in the Journal of Neuroimmunology. At the center of the study was multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disease in which the immune system destroys myelin, a substance that coats nerve fibers, causing lesions in the central nervous system with the progressive loss of motor and cognitive abilities.
Since there is currently no cure capable of stopping multiple sclerosis, the alumno UCBM worked on a project that sees in neural stem cells - capable of modulating the inflammatory response and reintegrating into damaged tissue - the possibility of regenerating myelin. Specifically, to avoid obtaining stem cells from embryonic or fetal tissues, research is exploring new techniques for obtaining them from skin cells. A project that Giulio Volpe carried out within the Clinical Neurosciences Department of the Cambridge Biosciences Campus and which gave life to his thesis work, discussed last February.
And for the future? “I don't preclude myself from anything both in academic and professional terms,” she said. “I will continue to look for new stimuli thanks to the skills I have acquired and my knowledge of multiple languages. In the short term, I would like to complete my specialist medical training in the field of neuroscience, without giving up my research activity, in order to always be at the forefront of scientific and professional development.
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