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Important steps forward to counter type 1 narcolepsy from a study co-coordinated by Unimore
The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a phase 2 study conducted on individuals with type 1 narcolepsy, co-led by Professor Giuseppe Plazzi – neurologist, coordinator of the Centre for Narcolepsy and Sleep Disorders at the IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, and Professor of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at Unimore. Type 1 narcolepsy (NT1) is a rare and serious chronic neurological condition caused by the significant loss of orexin-producing n...
The 27th AlmaLaurea Report, presented today, 10th June 2025, at an event hosted this year by the University of Brescia, reconfirms Unimore's position at the top in the region for the employment effectiveness of its degrees. Data collected and disseminated by AlmaLaurea, an inter-university consortium founded in 1994 with 81 participating Italian universities, provides a detailed picture of the impact of degrees on entering the job market. The survey annually involves thousands of graduates, who...
A freshwater snail as a novel tool for neuropsychiatric research. This is demonstrated by a study coordinated by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, published in the Translational Psychiatry journal from the Nature group, which for the second time worldwide documents anxiety-like behaviour in a non-mammalian organism: the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis . The observed behaviour responds to administration of alprazolam, one of the main medications used to treat anxiety disorders, a...
The run-off for the election of the Rector of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will take place on Monday 16 June 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. No candidate achieved the absolute majority of weighted votes required by the Electoral Regulations in the first round. The two candidates progressing to the second round are Rita Cucchiara and Tommaso Fabbri, who received the highest number of votes among the four full professors officially admitted to the race. The complete results...
The 2025 "Pediatria Futura" Award to Unimore PhD Student Viola Trevisani
During the closing ceremony of the 80th National Congress of the Italian Society of Paediatrics, held in Naples, Dr Viola Trevisani, a PhD student at Unimore in the Clinical and Experimental Medicine programme, was awarded first place in the prestigious “Pediatria Futura” competition for a study on Gender Identity in children. The research was conducted by the team led by Professor Lorenzo Iughetti in collaboration with Professor Elena Righi's group. Gender identity (GI) refers to one’s sens...
"Stories on the Move": the Seventh National Conference on Public History in Modena
Modena will host the seventh National Conference of the Italian Association of Public History from 3 to 6 June. The event is organised in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the Historical Institute of Modena. The theme chosen for the 2025 edition, “Stories on the Move”, draws attention to the spaces and audiences of history, not only academic ones, but also everyday and participatory ones such as streets, squares, kitchens, paths, factories and theatres. These ...
The seventh edition of the Summer School “Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Integrating traditional and innovative tools” will take place from 3 to 6 June, organised by the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with the Marco Biagi Foundation and the Interdepartmental Research Centre on Digital Humanities, DHMoRe. The rapid introduction of new technologies has brought significant transformations to the landscape...
The Atlantic Council of Montenegro and the Department of Law of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation, establishing a structured agreement between Italy and Montenegro with the aim of enhancing academic and scientific activities between the two countries. The official signing ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Atlantic Council of Montenegro, in the presence of a delegation from the Department of Law led by Professor Marco Gestri, rep...
Unimore Study on the Impact of Phthalates on Children's Genital Development Wins Award in Copenhagen
Among the winners of the Poster Award at the recent Joint Congress of ESPE and ESE 2025 in Copenhagen – which saw the participation of over 8,000 paediatric and adult endocrinologists and more than a thousand scientific contributions – was a study conducted by the research team led by Professor Lorenzo Iughetti from the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Mothers, Children and Adults at Unimore, together with Professor Elena Righi’s team from the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic ...
The tensions between public authority and contractual constraints, the definition of market access thresholds, the role of case law in exclusion criteria, and the criminal implications in tender procedures: just over two years after the entry into force of the new Public Contracts Code, the actual implementation of Legislative Decree no. 36 of 31 March 2023 raises central issues involving public administrations, economic operators, and legal scholars. The analysis of the corrective decree, issu...
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