Human Technopole

03/06/2026

🔬 From international fencing competitions to exploring the microscopic structures that help cells communicate, move and function: our Gaia Pigino, Head of the Molecular Cell Biology Research Centre, is featured in La Repubblica.

🧬 Her work focuses on cilia, tiny cellular structures whose dysfunction is linked to a wide range of diseases. By connecting molecular, structural and cellular biology, her research helps reveal how complex biological systems work and how science can open new paths towards understanding human health.

👏 Thanks to Gianluca Dotti for sharing her story.

Read more (in Italian)👉 https://bit.ly/4x0febT

Agonista e poi maestra di scherma, la scienziata dalle origini senesi guida il centro di biologia cellulare molecolare allo Human Technopole di Milano. La sua …

01/06/2026

🔬 What becomes possible when advanced technologies are open to researchers across Italy?

🧬 Human Technopole has opened a new Call for Access to its National Facilities, following 585 applications and 298 approved projects since the programme launched.

📊 From genomics and structural biology to light imaging, genome engineering, disease modelling and data analysis, our Facilities help researchers turn complex questions into stronger science, with expert support at every step.

Explore how shared infrastructure can help shape the future of human health together 👉

Human Technopole has opened a new Call for Access to its National Facilities, offering researchers across Italy the opportunity to use advanced technologies, specialised expertise and scientific support across HT’s shared research infrastructure.

29/05/2026

🤖 Want to grow into an independent scientist using AI and mathematical modelling to explore biology and medicine?

🔢 Two fully funded PhD positions are available in the Sottoriva Group, on AI for spatiotemporal processes in biomedicine, and in the Pinheiro Group, on mathematical modelling of stochastic biological processes. The projects are open at Human Technopole, within the PhD Programme in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano – a programme designed to combine scientific excellence, guidance and open collaboration.

🌍 Join an international, interdisciplinary research environment where data, models and ideas connect and where your PhD is a guided journey to help you build your scientific identity and prepare for what comes next.

Apply by 1 July 2026 👉

At Human Technopole, we’re looking for curious and motivated young researchers to join two fully funded PhD projects within the PhD Programme in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences at Politecnico di Milano.

25/05/2026

🦋 On , we join global efforts to raise awareness of thyroid diseases, their symptoms and the role this gland plays in human health.

🔬 At Human Technopole, we also study the thyroid: a natural bioreactor that uses iodine to produce hormones essential for metabolism, development and energy balance. Among our Research Groups, the Francesca Coscia Group uses integrative structural biology to understand thyroid processes across scales, from atoms to organoids, and how they change in disease.

Check out their latest paper in Communications Biology, uncovering how LRPAP1 regulates Megalin and its interaction with thyroglobulin 👉

Using structural, biochemical and computational approaches, Human Technopole researchers have uncovered how the chaperone LRPAP1 binds to Megalin and regulates its interaction with thyroglobulin and potentially other ligands. The findings are published in Communications Biology.

22/05/2026

💡 What if AI could connect biology from molecules to patients?

🤖 Introducing the Multimodal AI Across Scales Research Programme, led by our Florian Jug, Head of the Programme within the Computational Biology Research Centre.

🔬 The Programme develops AI methods that bring together biological data across modalities and scales, from molecules and cells to tissues, organs, patients and populations. With open, FAIR and uncertainty-aware tools, the team aims to make AI a trusted partner for biomedical research, helping scientists ask better questions and build new paths towards human health.

The new Multimodal AI Across Scales Research Programme, within Human Technopole's Computational Biology Research Centre, develops AI methods that connect biological data across modalities and scales, from molecules and cells through tissues and organs to patients and populations.

19/05/2026

🚀 What happens when ideas meet the people ready to turn them into progress?

💡 2026 was a success, bringing together events, workshops, talks and labs around this year’s theme: “The origin of ideas”. HT contributed with two events, exploring how AI can support biomedical research, precision oncology, health data, policy and innovation.

🤝 From large biomedical datasets to the future of health data use, these conversations reflected what drives us: connecting disciplines, people and perspectives to push science further.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at MIND Milano Innovation District

18/05/2026

🔬 What if less light could show us more of the cell?

🤖 Our Jug Group has developed Micro𝕊plit, a machine learning-based method published in Nature Methods.

🧫 It separates overlapping fluorescence microscopy signals into individual, denoised images, helping researchers see cellular structures more clearly while reducing exposure and preserving samples. With code and training data openly available, Micro𝕊plit gives the scientific community a new way to extract more insight from less data.

Read more 👉

Researchers at Human Technopole have developed a novel machine learning-based method that transforms composite fluorescence microscopy images with overlapping signals into separate images revealing individual cellular structures. The tool is published in Nature Methods, with experimental models and....

15/05/2026

🌱 Two days to connect, think across disciplines and grow as a PhD community.

🎓 The 1st Human Technopole PhD Retreat brought our doctoral students together at Mantello for scientific exchange, skills development and shared moments. Students worked across different expertise to design new research projects, while workshops focused on career development, well-being and self-awareness.

✨ A retreat shaped by collaboration, curiosity and the people building the future of human health together.

🏆 Congratulations to the winners of the awards for Best Project Overall, Best Interdisciplinary Project, Best Pitch and the Miltenyi Biotec Award.

14/05/2026

🧭 What if we could map the genome like a city?

🧬 Our Bienko Group developed GPSeq, a tool that charts how DNA is positioned from the edge to the centre of the cell nucleus.

🔬 Published in Nature Protocols and featured on the journal cover, the protocol helps laboratories explore genome architecture across cell types and conditions, opening new ways to connect basic research with human health.

Read more 👉 https://humantechnopole.it/en/news/genome-maps-navigating-the-cell-nucleus-with-gpseq/

08/05/2026

🔬 How do shared technologies turn ideas into stronger science?

🧬 At Human Technopole’s National Facilities User Community Meeting, 200+ researchers from 38 institutes across Italy came together to share projects, methods and perspectives across neuroscience, computational biology, structural biology, cancer and immunogenomics.

🤝 From talks and posters to roundtable discussions, the day showed how open facilities can help build connections, support scientific progress and shape together the future of human health.

Watch the video 👉

How do shared technologies turn ideas into stronger science?At Human Technopole’s National Facilities User Community Meeting, 200+ researchers from 38 instit...