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University rankings downgrade Italy

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 14/09/2013
Research evaluation

Italian universities lose ground within the international rankings. Our best institutions cannot keep pace with the others in the big planetary match of knowledge production and dissemination. The average data, however, is even more alarming. It is not just about the best universities. The whole system is suffering, and not for a quality issue only: the main problem is about quantities. Countries worldwide are funding more and more education, while Italy less and less, simply meaning that the gap in knowledge between Italy and

MEETme TONIGHT “Researchers’ Night 2013”

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Submitted by redazione on 14 September, 2013 - 11:06

After last year's success, "MEETme TONIGHT, Researchers’ Night" - the initiative organized by Polytechnic of Milan, University of Milan, University of Milan-Bicocca, The City of Milan and several other institutional and academic organizations - will be replicated on September 27th 2013, from 10 am to 12 pm at Giardini "Indro Montanelli" in Via Palestro, Milan.

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What about present impact and future perspectives of anti TNF therapy?

Immunology
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What about present impact and future perspectives of anti TNF therapy?
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Marc Feldmann, (University of Oxford), father of anti TNF therapy
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15 September, 2013
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What about present impact and future perspectives of anti TNF therapy?
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Marc Feldmann, Head of the Kennedy Institute, at the University of Oxford, father of anti TNF therapy, explains how immunological treatments have become best selling drugs for many different diseases and what could they do in the future, not only for chronic, but also for acute conditions.

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University Ranking debate

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Read time: 2 minsSubmitted by Marco Milano on 12 September, 2013 - 12:29

 



Just as happened in Italy after the VQR report has released, a counter-assessment was also given to the Jiao Tong University ranking, concerning the best universities in a global scenario, published on august 2013. "That ranking does not reflect our academic system" were the words of Genvieve Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and research.

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World university ranking debate

di Marco Milano
Pubblicato il 11/09/2013
Research evaluation
Scientific research policy

Just as happened in Italy after the VQR report has released, a counter-assessment was also given to the Jiao Tong University ranking, concerning the best universities in a global scenario, published on august 2013. "That ranking does not reflect our academic system" were the words of Genvieve Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and research.

EvK2 CNR: science and cooperation in the shadow of K2

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Submitted by redazione on 11 September, 2013 - 09:29

"The Italian Science and Cooperation at the Shadow of K2" open last monday in Islamabad and leading by the commette of  EvK2Cnr (a National researc Concil project) within the Seed - Social Economic Environmental Development Project, in collaboration with the Karakoram International University (KIU) and the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Pakistan. The event traces decades of cooperation between Italy and Pakistan, including exploration and scientific research in the Karakorum.

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Do we really need a new vaccine against tuberculosis?

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Do we really need a new vaccine against tuberculosis?
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Stefan Kaufmann ( Max Planck Institute, Berlin), on a new vaccine for TB
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Do we really need a new vaccine against tuberculosis?

Stefan Kaufmann, director of Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, in Berlin, and past president of IUIS explains the advantage on the new vaccine for TB his group is testing in clinical trials in Europe and Africa.

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Animalists against Garattini, solidarity from the Group 2003

di Gruppo 2003
Pubblicato il 05/09/2013

Science is an essential – If not predominant – component of contemporary culture. Yet, nowadays, some Italian politicians want to deny the right to speak in public to one of the world's most respected Italian scientist, Silvio Garattini. His fault is that of telling the truth about animal experimentation: Garattini always reminded that it is impossible to get along without experimentation on living beings if we want to keep researching new treatments, such as those against cancer.

Which are the perspectives for a vaccine against HIV?

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Which are the perspectives for a vaccine against HIV?
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Jorge Kalil president of IUIS, on HIV vaccine against HIV.
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Which are the perspectives for a vaccine against HIV?

Jorge Kalil (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), president of IUIS, describes hurdles and hope on the way to produce a vaccine against HIV.

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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by redazione on 4 September, 2013 - 00:16
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