\ Innovazione \ STUDY AWARDS FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS ON THE GENETIC AND MOLECULAR COMPONENTS OF HUMAN PATHOLOGY

The Trieste section of the Italian Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Handicaps hereby promotes, with the contribution of the Kathleen Foreman Casali Charity Foundation, a competition for the assignment of two study awards in the amount of 3,000 Euros each.

The prizes are destined for young recent graduates of Italian biomedical faculties: medicine and surgery, biological sciences, medical biotechnology, pharmaceutical studies, etc. who finished their degree not before 2012 and perform their activities in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The purpose of the initiative is to stimulate the study of the genetic and molecular aspects of human pathology: the aspects of molecular diagnostics of hereditary and acquired diseases, the genetic study of hereditary diseases, the technical and ethical problems of family diagnosis, comprehension of the genetic component of adult diseases, the use of nucleic acids as instruments of therapy.

Prizes will be awarded and projects acknowledged as worthy of support based upon the originality of the contribution offered by the research.

Applications must arrive by October 31, 2016 to the office of the AIRH, Trieste Section, via Donota 1, postal code 34121, Trieste c/o Studio Dr. Tullio Maestro and jointly to the e-mail address tmaestr@tin.it accompanied by:

• Certificate of university graduation;
• Curriculum vitae (CV);
• Detailed programme of research and activities performed by the applicant;
• Letter of recommendation from the manager of the operating unit where research activity is performed with indication of the funds already available to finance the research programme presented;
• Declaration that the applicant does not have a direct and continuous employee relationship and does not benefit at the moment from grants or scholarships.