Italy


Italy - sites where Euro-BioImaging Nodes are hosted.

The Italian Republic, a founding member of Euro-BioImaging, is host to the Med-Hub and to four Nodes across the country: Advanced Light Microscopy Italian Node, Molecular Imaging Italian Node, Phase Contrast Imaging Flagship Node Trieste, and Digital Imaging Multimodal Platform Neuromed - DIMP NEUROMED. Learn more about the Nodes and get an overview of news and interactions with Italy below.

Advanced Light Microscopy Italian Node - Key figures 2024

5

Facilites

129

External Users

62

User Publications

27

Remote Users

5

Training Courses Organized

17

Staff Involved

Multimodal Molecular Imaging Italian Node - Key figures 2024

9

Facilites

30

External Users

20

User Publications

24

Remote Users

1

Training Courses Organized

29

Staff Involved

Phase Contrast Imaging Flagship Node Trieste - Key figures 2024

1

Facilites

23

External Users

20

User Publications

0

Remote Users

0

Training Courses Organized

2

Staff Involved

Digital Imaging Multimodal Platform Neuromed -
DIMP NEUROMED - Key figures 2024

8

Facilites

N/A

External Users

N/A

User Publications

N/A

Remote Users

1

Training Courses Organized

9

Staff Involved

News about Italy

May 9, 2025

Virtual histology for a multi-modal human brainstem atlas

What is the best imaging approach to build a human brainstem atlas? Dr. Gisela Hagberg, a senior scientist…

SEE-LIFE Symposium

May 7, 2025

Euro-BIoImaging at the SEE-LIFE Symposium in Italy

The Euro-BioImaging Med-Hub section director, Linda Chaabane, was invited to participate in the Symposium on ‘Empowering Italian Euro-BioImaging infrastructure’ organised by the Italian nodes…

Seeds in the PET/CT scanner at DIMP NEUROMED Node.

April 28, 2025

Beyond the husk – shining light on seed quality through molecular imaging

Seed quality is absolutely key to the success of both agronomically relevant crops and forest tree species used for restoration strategies. Forest restoration activities,…

SEELIfe - Italian User Access Fund

March 27, 2025

User Access Funding for Projects at Italian Nodes

We are delighted to announce that the MultiModal Molecular Imaging Italian Node and the Advanced Light Microscopy (ALM) Italian Node are launching a call…

Paula Jiménez Gómez with Nicola D’Ascenzo

March 12, 2025

EVOLVE Job Shadowing Series: Paula Jiménez Gómez visits the DIMP NEUROMED - Leadership & Exploring the challenges of Project Coordination

The EVOLVE Job Shadowing program is a fantastic opportunity for Node staff to immerse in the daily life and operations of other Nodes of…

Estefanía Calvo Alvarez in the sample prep room at the University of Milan. 

February 27, 2025

Shedding light on the pathogenic potential of Leishmania tarentolae parasites

Leishmania are protozoan parasites responsible for causing leishmaniasis, a spectrum of severe immunopathologies that affect both humans and animals worldwide. These diseases, which manifest…

Linda Chaabane presents Euro-BioImaging at YITAMIC

September 20, 2024

Euro-BioImaging at yITAMIC Chat & Science days 

On September 13th 2024 our Med-Hub section director Linda Chaabane had the chance to introduce Euro-BioImaging at the first “Chat & Science Days” organized…

August 22, 2024

Congratulations to members of our Italian Node on the 2024 Fermi Prize

The 2024 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) was awarded jointly to Alberto Diaspro and Francesco Saverio Pavone for their experimental…

Jobs at Euro-BioImaging

August 6, 2024

The Med-Hub is looking for a Scientific Project Manager 

We are looking for a Scientific Project Manager to join the Euro-BioImaging Med-Hub team in Torino (Italy) in the heart of the Italian Alps.

Euro-BioImaging All Hands Nodes Meeting 2024

April 18, 2024

Euro-BioImaging All Hand’s Meeting in Torino

We are delighted to meet with the Euro-BioImaging community this week in beautiful Torino, Italy. The All-Hand’s Nodes meeting happens once a year, and…

Morphophen ERASMUS Mundi programme

February 14, 2024

MMMI Italian Node supports the MorphoPHEN Erasmus Mondus Join Master’s Program

The MorphoPHEN Master’s Program is an integrated and interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Joint Master, to train experts in morphological mouse phenotyping, to generate a…

The lightweight, transportable TeraHertz Imaging system offered by the University of Pisa can easily be deployed in the field.

November 20, 2023

TeraHertz Imaging: Portable plant imaging

Working on plant biology? Want to detect leaf water stress or assess the quality of dry fruits like chestnuts and hazelnuts? TeraHertz Imaging could…

Poster for the Multiscale Imaging in Neuroscience event with EBRAINS

October 25, 2023

In vivo molecular imaging applied to preclinical models of neurodegenerative disorders and brain cancer

Our next Special Edition Virtual Pub, “Multiscale Imaging in the Neurosciences,” organized in collaboration with EBRAINS, will take place on Friday, October 27. At…

Figure 1: Hierarchical scanning of entire monkey hearts. A) a heart before serial ethanol dehydration. B) stabilized heart prepared for scanning. C) transverse cut in the overview (67 µm pixel) scan. D) ‘zoomed in’ stitched plane (8 µm pixel) in the area of interest, demonstrating condensed myocardial band (#) and a coronary vessel (*). D) Single view of ‘zoomed in’ scan (2 µm pixel)

June 19, 2023

Multiscale multimodal 3D analysis of cardiovascular alterations/ structural features in a rhesus macaque monkey model for COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest health crisis of the 21th century. Due to the extremely high number of infections, it is of…

MRI images provide information about distribution of the polymer in the different organs and tumor uptake

June 7, 2023

Supporting the development of hydrogels for drug delivery

Francois Lux is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lyon 1. His research interests include nanomedicines – precisely the development of…

A closer look at chloroplasts involved in stem photosynthesis in Fraxinus ornus with FLIM. Photo courtesy of Sara Natale.

May 23, 2023

Looking at stem photosynthesis with FLIM

It all started at the Molecular and Biophysical Bases of Photosynthesis Conference held in Venice in May 2022. Sara Natale, then a PhD researcher…

Anna-Chiara Deluca, coordinator of the ‘Italian Ministry of Research’ Grant - SEELIFE and Seetharaman Parashuraman, Coordinator of the Italian ALM Node, in Naples.

January 27, 2023

30.5 M Euros funding awarded to Euro-BioImaging Italian Nodes

Congratulations to the MMMI Italian Node and Italian ALM Node on receiving 30.5 M Euros funding over the next 3 years from the Italian…

October 26, 2022

Successful User Forum on Fighting infectious diseases

On October 6th, Euro-BioImaging ERIC organized its fourth online User Forum. The topic was “Fighting infectious diseases.” The event highlighted the range of infectious…

October 24, 2022

Death of Professor Tullio Pozzan, an eminent Italian scientist and imaging technology developer and proponent

Prof. Tullio Pozzan, eminent scientist, died at the age of 73. Italy lost one of its most prominent scientists well known worldwide for his…

Plant biology at NEUROMED

October 19, 2022

Plant imaging at DIMP Neuromed Node

What better place to bring your plant imaging project than to DIMP Neuromed Node, located in the Technology…

User Forum on infectious disease

September 26, 2022

MRI as a tool to study murine models of chronic lung infection

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on October 6, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of cutting-edge imaging technologies…

Italian Fund

May 19, 2022

A successful funding mechanism from the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research

In 2021, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research kindly provided € 85,000 to support transnational user access to and from Italy. The Italian…

Fig. 4 – The happy users from Politecnico di Milano (from left: Federica Buccino, Laura Vergani, Sara Bagherifard)

April 22, 2022

Micro-cracks and lacunar network in healthy and osteoporotic subjects: an experimental validation through synchrotron phase contrast imaging

The comprehension of bone damage processes is a crucial hint for the understanding of age-related fractures that are strongly linked to osteoporosis, a diffuse…

March 24, 2022

EOSC-Life Demonstrator 5: Paper out!

The preclinical imaging community faces many challenges when it comes to collecting, processing, and reusing the various types of imaging data produced in preclinical…

Scientific User Forum - Neuroscience

March 16, 2022

3D-Brain 18f-[Fdg] PET segmentation and Classification for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease using Deep Neural Network

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on April 5, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of…

October 21, 2021

Successful 2nd Euro-BioImaging User Forum on “Understanding and Fighting Cancer”

The second edition of the Euro-BioImaging User Forum was held on Thursday, October 14th, 2021 – an afternoon of exchanges on the importance of…

European Researchers' Night

September 23, 2021

Euro-BioImaging Nodes and Users participate in the European Researchers’ Night

The European Researchers’ Night is a research communication and promotion event that aims to bring research and researchers closer to citizens of all…

September 21, 2021

Understanding and Fighting Cancer: Golgi maturation-dependent glycoenzyme recycling controls glycosphingolipid biosynthesis and cell growth via GOLPH3

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on October 14, 2021 from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of…

Photo of a lamella prepared for the study (A), a reconstructed slice of the entire tissue specimen at a resolution of 100 µm (B) and the outcomes of three local area scans performed in three selected areas (C-E) with a resolution of 5 µm

July 21, 2021

How imaging technologies contribute to understanding viruses

Euro-BioImaging offers an ever-expanding portfolio of cutting-edge imaging technologies and expertise that covers a range of applications in the life sciences – including in…

March 17, 2021

New funding opportunity for Euro-BioImaging users

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Italian User Access Grants Program. With this Program, sponsored and funded by the Italian Ministry…

March 5, 2021

Towards sharing and reusing of preclinical image data

The preclinical imaging community faces many challenges when it comes to collecting, processing, and reusing the various types of imaging data produced in preclinical…

September 29, 2020

MSI: Making pictures out of Mass-Spectrometry data

Interview with Seetharaman Parashuraman, Head of the Bioimaging facility of the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Naples, an institute belonging to the National…

A view of what the user sees when connected remotely to the reconstruction PC at Italy's Elletra Synchrotron facility.

July 23, 2020

Running remote experiments in Italy’s Elettra Synchrotron laboratory

Due to the COVID-19 emergency in Spring 2020, Euro-BioImaging’s  Phase Contrast Imaging Flagship Node in Trieste, Italy, started running remote experiments at its…

July 8, 2020

CT Imaging and Artificial Intelligence: United for COVID-19 prognostics

The new coronavirus is highly contagious. However, despite the wide spread of the virus and its ability to bring entire healthcare systems to their…

Regular contacts with users are planned prior to the beginning of the project in remote access projects at MMMI Italian Node.

June 25, 2020

Remote access in preclinical imaging services

Imaging facilities across the globe are scrambling to adapt remote procedures – or new, stricter hygiene measures – that make it possible to open…

June 3, 2020

Imaging techniques and COVID19 diagnosis

During the COVID-19 pandemic, computed tomography (CT) is the imaging method of choice to diagnose and monitor patients with COVID-19 because of its resolution,…