The next-generation #lifesciences institute advancing human health through basic research and collaboration.

Palazzo Italia, Milan
Joined January 2018
🧬 What does it take to understand life’s complexity? 🔬 At Human Technopole, research, facilities, training and impact work as one connected system to turn discovery into progress for #humanhealth. youtu.be/okWehgenNMM
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💻 #GeMAIHc2027 includes a hackathon with team challenges in generative and multimodal AI for healthcare. 🧠 Challenges will be released two weeks before the school. Next fee tier 👉 1 November gemaihc.irdta.eu/2027/
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🌍 “Science is global.” 🧬 For #UnitedNationsDay, our Piero @carninci, Head of #Genomics Research Centre – Functional Genomics, reflects on how international collaboration connects expertise across borders and helps scientific knowledge move further.
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🧬 How can shared data and technologies make genomic research stronger? 🤝 For #OpenAccessWeek, our Clelia Peano, Head of the National Facility for #Genomics, reflects on why discoveries grow when data, ideas and expertise move across groups, disciplines and institutions.
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📊 How can data help us understand reality and make better decisions? 🤝 For #EuropeanStatisticsDay, our @FraIev84, Associate Head of the Health Data Science Research Centre and prof at @polimi, explains why combining domains and knowledge is essential to extract value from data
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🦠 What does it mean to “contain multitudes”? At #FocusLive2026, our @Fabio_Marcuccio @LindaMasante @GiuliaPeveri will lead an HT lab using microscopes and experiments to explore cells & microbes. 23–25 Oct, @Museoscienza Come try it 👉 live.focus.it/
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🧬 On #AdaLovelaceDay, we celebrate women in STEM. At Human Technopole, @Franc_Perrone explains how connecting computational models and molecular biology helps researchers study cancer treatment resistance.
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🌌 A new way to observe the Universe. 🏅 The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for his contributions to IceCube and cosmic neutrino discovery. Our @AndreaSottoriva reflects on this achievement and its links with technology and data-driven science.
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💡 Light as a switch for cells. 🏅 The 2026 #NobelPrize in Medicine honours Deisseroth, Hegemann & Nagel for discoveries behind optogenetics. Our @ILegnini reflects on how these tools are used today, including at HT, to study gene expression and development.
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🤝 #GeMAIHc2027 will run at Human Technopole and MIND, in Milan, with in-person networking at the centre and full live online participation also available. Next fee tier 10 October 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/traini…
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✨ One community, one shared identity, one new name: Technopolers! 🤝 It’s what we call the people who make Human Technopole what it is, across research, facilities, administration and support roles.
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💡 One Institute, many perspectives, one community.
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📢 A new Call for Access to Human Technopole’s National Facilities opens on 1 October! 🔬 Researchers across Italy can apply to access advanced research infrastructures, specialised expertise and scientific support. 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/nation…
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🤖 How can shared tools and open access to information accelerate discovery? 🔎 For #AccessToInfoDay, our @florianjug reflects on how teams, communities and shared technologies help scientists turn complex data into new knowledge.
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🔬 What happens when a physicist approaches a biological question? 🤝 For #EuropeanResearchersNight, our Giulia Peveri, Postdoc in the @BienkoMagda Group, reflects on why bringing different perspectives together is fundamental to science. #NotteEuropeaDeiRicercatori
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🔬 From a ferret embryonic cortex to Milan’s metro: meet our @emanuele_capra , PhD student in the Nereo @KalebicNereo Group, one of the #TALES2026 winners. 🎥 In this video, he shows how he created “La foresta della mente” using confocal microscopy.
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🧬 How do you reveal finer details inside a cell? 🏆 Our @LauraBonanomi7 , PhD student in the Philipp Erdmann @3P1L Group, won #TALES2026 with an expansion microscopy image of fibroblasts. 🚇 Watch how she made it. Now on display in Milan’s metro.
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🧬 How can different disciplines work together to understand and treat cancer? 🔬 For #WorldCancerResearchDay, our @AndreaSottoriva explains how mathematical modelling, AI and biology can help uncover the biology of disease and design new treatments #CancerResearchNeedsUsAll
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