Universita degli Studi di Urbino

The Università degli Studi di Urbino is a medium to large sized Italian University with approximately 23,000 students and 1,100 staff of which 670 are academic or contracted staff. The University was founded in 1506 and is now organized into 11 Faculties and several Research Centres.

The Faculty of Sciences involved in this project has about 80 permanent academic staff and is supported by about 90 Technical staff. The Research Centre for Biotechnology, where work on this project takes place, researches and develops applications in the fields of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

The Institute of Biochemistry, also contributes to the project via the provision of technical and analytical support. These centres are well equipped with automated nucleic acid sequencers, protein sequencers, mass spectrometry, NMR, electron microscopy etc. The University was recently ranked first in Italy for science based on its publication citation ranking.

Staff Involved in NACBO

Mauro Magnani, Antonella Antonelli, Luca Galluzzi, Elena Pantucci, Luigina Rossi, Laura Chiarantini, Aurora Cerasi, Sonja Serafini, Luca Giorgi, Mauro Micheloni and Gianluca Ambrosi

Biographies

Mauro Magnani
Luca Galluzzi

Research Themes

 Red blood cells as carriers for drug delivery (PDF, 7 pages, 430KB)

Partner website

www.uniurb.it