At twenty-five she is one promise of medicine and science. But woe to consider it a "brain on the run". It has its roots well anchored in Italy even if its name is already a great bet at an international level. We are talking about Giulio Deangeli, an all-Italian excellence. Student in Pisa and close to the degree in medicine. He has won five scholarships at Cambridge and many are competing for him. Because it is without a doubt Bravo but also a very good socially committed person.
Giulio Deangeli from high school to university the many achievements
Enrollment in medicine at the University of Pisa but also many projects carried out in research, volunteering and scientific dissemination. Giulio Deangeli as a high school student was the only Italian to get on the podium of the International Brain Bee - Ibb, the world championship of neuroscience. And it didn't stop. He has won three official Cambridge University grants, beating the competition. In fact, it has passed a selection process in which around 22.000 candidates participate every year at an international level. It was so named Vice-Chancellor's Award: is among the 24 European students awarded the highest honor of the University of Cambridge. And then the winner of the Mrc Dtp Grant of the School of Clinical Medicine and Darwin College Studentship of the British university. Two more scholarships: from Hevolus Innovation Scholarship, conferred by the homonymous company, an Italian partner of Microsoft e the Ermenegildo Zegna Founder's Scholarship.
The pride of the University of Pisa for Giulio Deangeli's achievement
The teachers who have known and appreciated him over the years are proud of these results. "Giulio Deangeli is a boy out of the ordinary in many respects, the human one above all - commented the rector of the University of Pisa, Paolo Mancarella -. His results are born from a precious talent combined with an innate leadership ability that is allowing him to emerge internationally. I am proud that our University has been able to enhance it and make it grow, giving us a young researcher who will certainly make a significant contribution to the development of our country.. In a delicate moment like the one we are experiencing, it is reassuring to know that the future of Italy is in the hands of young people like him.".
The projects that the student is carrying out in the field of neuroscience
The recognition of the twenty-five year old from Padua goes to his university and to those who believed in him. "My love of science has always been visceral - tells Giulio Deangeli - but I have to thank the environment academic extraordinarily stimulating in which I found myself in Pisa if today my most ambitious projects are materializing. I have a deep feeling of gratitude towards my university and my country, for putting me in the best conditions to pursue my dreams". Among the research projects, one in the field of neuroscience, neurodegenerative diseases, with the PhD in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. "Neurodegeneration is a social and scientific problem of colossal proportions - explains Deangeli -. I have no doubt about the choice to dedicate my life to give my contribution to fight this tragedy".
The team of scholars with whom the young Paduan will work
A high-level work and research group on neurodegeneration. In fact, Giulio Deangeli will work with the teacher Maria Grazia Spillantini, Fellow of the Royal Society and discoverer of alpha-synuclein (the central protein of Parkinson's) as well as scientific heir to Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini. And then co-supervisor will be the Professor Michel Goedert, awarded the Brain Prize in 2018 (the Nobel Prize in Neuroscience), Fellow of the Royal Society. "This is an opportunity of immense scientific depth - Deangeli points out - both for the immeasurable caliber of the two teachers who will follow me, and for the repertoire of ultra-advanced techniques to which I will have access, such as the CryoEm, the Super-Resolution Microscopy and the Clem, in which Cambridge is the spearhead of world level".
Vice Chancellor's Award / Cambridge International Scholarship is awarded for academic and research merit to the top 250 applicants across the university. The young Paduan will also have a co-financing from the exclusive Darwin College.
Deangeli's short but significant career
The 2014-year-old arrived at the University of Pisa in XNUMX. First in the admission test to Medicine, first in the national competition for access to the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. AND one success after another: first in 2016 at the European Amgen Scholars Symposium at the University of Cambridge and, in 2018, at the Harvard iGem Biohackathon of Harvard University. Also in 2013 he had won the Neuroscience Olympics, Italian phase of the International Brain Bee - Ibb. He is vice world champion, the only Italian so far to be on the world podium in this competition.
