| Fellowships
for training of post - doctoral Italian scientists
The Post-doctoral fellowships
has been addressed to Italian scientists which previously performed studies
on HIV infection in foreign institution at least for two years.
Dr. Maurizio
Fraziano, Dep. of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
. Duration and place of the grant: Dep. of Biology, University of Rome
"Tor Vergata". Subject of this grant was: "Analysis of
the mechanisms of activation and apoptosis of monocytes and lymphocytes
a/b and g/d
in patients affected by HIV during the course of tubercular infection".
Length of the fellowship: one year.
Dr. Fabrizio
Poccia, Dep. of Biology, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Duration and place of the grant: Dep. of Biology, University of Rome "Tor
Vergata". Subject of this grant was: "Mechanisms of activation
and anergy of Vg9Vd2
T cells in the course of HIV-1 infection: a rationale for non-peptidic
vaccination with phosphoantigens". Length of the fellowship: six
months
Year 1998
Dr. Marilina Benedetta Santucci, Dept. of Biology, University
of Tor Vergata Rome, Italy. Duration of the grant: March 1998 - November
1998. Subject of this grant was to study the analysis of the role of the
interaction of FAS-fas ligand and of the expression of a molecular CD14
in mechanisms of activation - anergy - apoptosi during infection of MTB
and HIV.
Dr. Fabrizio
Poccia, National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani,
Rome Italy. Duration of the grant: June 1998 - September 1998. Subject
of this grant was to study the mechanisms of activation and energy of
T cells bearing the gd TCR: possible applications
in immunotherapy.
Dr. Bruno Padrazzi,
CIRBS Paris, France. Duration of the grant: March 1998 February 1999.
Subject of this grant was to study on basic laboratory - clinical research
related to the standardisation of the test of immunological resistance
in vitro to infection of HIV.
Year 2000 -2001
Dr. Alessandra
Sacchi, Duration and place of the grant: March-June2000, Experimental
Immunology Dep. of Research, Kantonsspital Basel Switzerland. Subject:Presentation
of self glycosphingolipids by CD1a. Analysis of molecular interactions
with ligand and TCR.
Dr. Giulia Cappelli,
Duration and place of the grant: November 2000-Jenuary 2001, Institute
of Experimental Medicine, CNR Research's Area Tor Vergata and International
Centre for AIDS and Emerging and Re-emerging Infections (ICAERI) at the
National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani. Subject:
Training in the most advanced biomedical techniques applied for immunological
research. The advanced knowledge and skills to be received from this intensive
research training shall be used by Dr.Cappelli during the course of her
involvement in the research project to be sponsored by the UNESCO- Venice
Office and to be implemented at the facilities of the Centre Integré
de Recherches Biocliniques d'Abidjan (CIRBA) in Abidjan Ivory Coast for
studying the results of antiretroviral therapy of native Africans effected
by AIDS.
Dr. Silvia Vendetti,
Duration and place of the grant: November 2000-February 2001 International
Centre for AIDS and Emerging and Re-emerging Infections (ICAERI) at the
National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani. Subject:
Cells isolation from peripheral blood for generating professional antigen
presenting cells and for cultivating clones and tumoral cell lines as
well as to other advanced techniques such as the measurement of proliferation,
ELISA assays and to developing a cytofluorimetric facility.
Mrs. Modestina
Mignone, Duration and place of the grant: December 2000-November
2001, Institute of Experimental Medicine, CNR Research's Area Tor Vergata.
Subject: Processing and analysing biological samples collected by the
Centre Integré des Recherches Biocliniques d'Abidjan (CIRBA) Ivory
Coast.
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