The project described below falls within the mission of which the Interuniversity Biotechnology Consortium has always been the bearer, namely the promotion of the development at the academic level of the Italian research&innovation system within the various sectors of advanced biotechnology.
In particular, in recent years the CIB has focused its initiatives in the direction of stimulating - within the research carried out within the consortium universities - new interests towards the most innovative (Cutting-Edge) and interdisciplinary cultural and technological approaches. In this perspective, thanks to the funding received in support of the “Competitive Projects” already concluded and still in progress, it has been possible to carry out activities such as the organization of leading-edge workshops aimed at doctoral students and researchers, the allocation of training and research grants and scholarships, and finally the elaboration of shared projects in the biomedical, biomolecular, biopharmaceutical and industrial-environmental fields.
In fact, the structure in which the Consortium is organized, consisting of 130 operating units distributed within the 20 consortium sites, and a National Laboratory, fosters the formation of interdisciplinary networks capable of providing skills, knowledge and resources that are indispensable for tackling complex projects.
The fruitful interaction between the business units is also positively reflected in the area of advanced teaching, and high education of young talents (recent graduates and PhD students) preparing them for confrontation with industrial reality.
With a view to enhancing the results achieved under previous competitive projects, here the CIB proposes to initiate a project for the development of innovative themes, which will be carried out under 3 different areas of biotechnology intervention, with the following objectives:
(a) Focus Area 1. Integrated multiomics approaches for translational medicine.
(b) Focus area 2. Applications of omics sciences for the study of the microbiome in relation to the environment and climate change
(c) Area of focus 3. Innovative technologies for advanced omics sciences in human and plant models.