Fabio Turone

Milan

Science journalist • WP leader ERC-funded @frontiers_media • President @sciwritersitaly • Director @cesjethics • Alum @KSJatMIT • Board @eurofsj

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2025 Begins With 112 Drugs Waiting for Approval in Europe

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | Fabio Turone

As of December 31, 2024, a total of 112 drugs remained under evaluation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), with 57 containing new active substances. The latest Horizon Scanning report from the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) provides a preview of therapies that could impact clinical practice in the coming months.
Infrastructure for cultural heritage science gains coveted legal status

1 month ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Florence-based European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science should be able to expand more easilyAn infrastructure for facilitating research on cultural heritage—the study of objects, buildings and landscape sites that have cultural or historical importance—has secured the EU’s coveted European Research Infrastructure Consortium legal status, which should help it expand its operations.
Italy news roundup: 14-27 March

1 month ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News This week: joint funding with Serbia and a University of Milano-Bicocca partnershipIn depth: Italian farmers took to the streets of Parma in protest on 19 March, targeting the headquarters of the European Food Safety Authority over its perceived support for laboratory-grown foods.
Protests erupt in Italy over safety of lab-grown food

1 month ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Farming representatives met with EU food regulator, seeking reassurances over scientific testing methodsItalian farmers took to the streets of Parma in protest on 19 March, targeting the headquarters of the European Food Safety Authority over its perceived support for laboratory-grown foods.
Italian research scheme attracts over 5,000 proposals

1 month ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Popular Fondo Italiano per la Scienza call set for success rate of 6 per cent The third call of the Italian funding scheme modelled on the European Research Council has received over 5,000 applications, giving it an expected success rate of only about 6 per cent. The research ministry told media that the call from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (Italian Science Fund) received a total of 5,093 proposals, including 2,062 from early career scientists.
25 years of ERA: the view from Italy

1 month ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Research harmonisation key to many Italian academics, as European Research Area values run deepIf you ask Italian academics and researchers about the European Research Area, most of them will tell you that they do not really know what ERA is—or what it’s meant to be. Still, assuming that they do not care about the harmonisation of research activities would be a huge mistake.
Italy news roundup: 14-27 February

2 months ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Image: Grace Gay for Research Professional News This week: university budget growth, quantum technology progress and cooperation with the United Arab EmiratesIn depth: Italy is positioning itself at the forefront of research assessment reform through its active engagement in the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) heard earlier this month.
Italy readies for research assessment reform

2 months ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Country’s National Chapter for Coara is actively engaged in efforts to modernise the systemItaly is positioning itself at the forefront of research assessment reform through its active engagement in the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) heard earlier this month. The country’s National Chapter for Coara held a meeting on 19 February to present and promote some of its activities to the CRUI.
Research minister pledges €37.5m for new research contracts

2 months ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

But controversy continues over Italy’s proposed bill on short-term hiring of researchersItaly’s research minister, Anna Maria Bernini, has announced €37.5 million for the hiring of “at least” 250 young researchers under the new, more expensive research contracts recently introduced to replace the short-term, precarious ‘assegni di ricerca’, or research grants.
Italian researchers file complaint to European Commission

2 months ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Fabio Turone

Government delay in reforming grants into contracts questioned by association for early career researchersThe long-overdue reform of research contracts for early career researchers has gained fresh momentum after the association of PhD students and postdocs, ADI (Associazione Dottorandi e Dottori di Ricerca in Italia), announced on 3 February that it had filed a complaint with the European Commission.