Unimore's Prof. Giovanni Grandi is the winner of the Young Scientist Award 2024
Professor Giovanni Grandi, Associate Professor of Gynaecology and Midwifery of the SMECHIMAI (Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Mother, Children, and Adults) Department of Unimore, was the winner of the Young Scientist Award 2024 by the Hungarian Egon and Ann Diczfalusy Foundation, an international award that rewards a single deserving researcher under 40 with a significant scientific curriculum in the field of women's reproductive health.
The award was conferred at the Foundation's 2024 Symposium, running until tomorrow, Saturday 21 September, in Szeged near Budapest, where the winner presented the most important scientific results of his candidature.
“‘It is a real honour to have been proclaimed as the winner of this important award for my scientific work in women's health over the last 10 years,’ commented Professor Grandi -. I am particularly pleased because the researcher after whom it is named is a role model of mine and did fundamental preparatory studies for my research today. My research focuses precisely on hormonal contraceptives, with particular interest in the specific oestrogenic (ethinyl-estradiol, oestradiol and oestrol) and progestin components, their metabolic and oncological impact and the benefits and risks associated with modern hormonal contraceptive therapies”.
Prof. Giovanni Grandi's commitment to this scientific strand is evidenced by the fact that since 2022 he has been editor in chief of “The European Journal of Contraception HealthCare”, one of the most authoritative international scientific journals in the field. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Contraception (SIC) since 2020 and has been a member of the Internal Scientific Committee (ISC) and the Expert Group on Sexual Medicine and Sex Education of the European Society of Contraception.
Professor Antonio La Marca, Director of the Midwifery and Gynaecology Clinic, where Professor Grandi serves, added: “This is a more than deserved recognition of a researcher who, despite his young age, has already achieved great success in the scientific field. This too confirms the long tradition of our Modenese School in the field of clinical research in Midwifery and Gynaecology. In our clinic there are many experts in different fields (endocrinology, assisted reproduction, ultrasound, prenatal diagnosis, obstetric pathology, advanced surgery) whose skills are recognised not only regionally and nationally but also internationally. The Gynaecology and Midwifery teaching group at Unimore boasts an excellent scientific production index and attraction of research funds”.
The scientific work of Professor Egon Diczfalusy (1920-2016), after whom the prize is named, focused on so-called “sex hormones”, first with the discovery and definition of the feto-placental unit, and later in a programme shared with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations that addressed female reproductive and sexual health issues with a pioneering interest in hormonal contraceptives and their mechanism of action. For example, he was the first in 1965 to identify an oestrogen hormone characteristic of pregnancy, oestrol (E4), which is now used in most modern hormonal contraceptives.
Giovanni Grandi graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialised in Midwifery and Gynaecology with top marks and honours at Unimore; he works as a caregiver at the University Hospital of Modena, where he is in charge of the “Preventive and Hereditary Gynaecology”, “Contraception” and “Gynaecological Laser Therapy” outpatient clinic. He has published more than 100 scientific papers indexed in PubMed. It has already obtained more than €1 million in funding for scientific research on the basis of national and international calls for applications.
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