Human Technopole

14/10/2026

🦠 Are we really individuals, or communities made of many forms of life?

At , our researchers Fabio Marcuccio, Linda Masante and Giulia Peveri will guide visitors through “Io contengo moltitudini”, an interactive Human Technopole lab exploring how cells and microbes work together to build the complexity of life.

📅 23–25 October 2026 at the Experience Area, Cavallerizze Pavilion, Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan.

Come and try the lab yourself 👉

13/10/2026

🔬 How do cancers become resistant to treatment? Answering this question takes expertise from different disciplines. On , the international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, we spotlight our Francesca Perrone, Postdoc in the Computational Biology Research Centre, and the collaborative research she contributes to at Human Technopole.

🧬 In this video, Francesca explains how HT’s Flagship Research Programme brings together computational models and experimental molecular biology to understand how tumours evolve and resist treatment. The aim is to anticipate these mechanisms and help inform more targeted, effective therapies.

06/10/2026

🌌 Some of the Universe’s most elusive particles have opened up a new way to observe it.

🏅 The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory experiment and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from the cosmos.

🔭 Our Andrea Sottoriva, Head of Computational Biology Research Centre - Biophysical Modelling and Simulation, reflects on how this achievement expanded the tools available to astronomy, combining large-scale scientific infrastructure, advanced technologies and data analysis. At Human Technopole, this interplay between technology, complex data and large-scale research is central to how we investigate biological systems and human health.

05/10/2026

💡 What if light could become a switch for cells?

🏅 The 2026 in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries that led to optogenetics, making it possible to control cellular activity using light with remarkable spatial and temporal precision.

🧠 Our Ivano Legnini, Research Group Leader in the Genomics Research Centre, reflects on how these tools are used today, including at Human Technopole, where optogenetic approaches help control gene expression in cells and organoids and investigate processes such as development.

Nobel Prize

05/10/2026

🤝 Why join an AI for healthcare school in person?

📍 will take place at Human Technopole and MIND, in Milan, bringing participants together for courses, keynotes, a symposium, hands-on activities and networking.

💻 Full live online participation will also be possible, but in-person interaction will be a central part of the school.

The next fee tier ends on 10 October. Plan your participation in Milan or online 👉 https://gemaihc.irdta.eu/2027/registration/

02/10/2026

✨ One community, one shared identity, one new name: Technopolers!

🧩 A few months ago, we asked our community to propose and choose a name for the people who make Human Technopole what it is. The result was perhaps hiding in plain sight.

🤝 This name strengthens our shared identity and sense of belonging, bringing together people across research, facilities, administration, scientific operations and support roles as one Human Technopole community.

💡 Different roles, expertise and perspectives, connected by the same commitment to HT and to shaping the future of human health together.

01/10/2026

📢 A new Call for Access to Human Technopole’s National Facilities opens on 1 October!

🔬 Researchers from the Italian scientific community can apply to access advanced technologies, specialised expertise and scientific support across five areas: genomics, structural biology, light imaging, genome engineering and disease modelling, and data handling and analysis.

🤝 Access goes beyond instruments. Our National Facility teams work alongside researchers to define experimental strategies, perform experiments, analyse data and develop new methods, with the possibility of combining expertise from different fields.

Explore the National Facilities and submit your application 👉

Human Technopole National Facilities offer open access to cutting edge technologies in the field of genomics, genome engineering and disease modelling, imaging, structural biology and data handling and analysis.

28/09/2026

🤖 How can shared tools and open access to information accelerate discovery?

🔎 For International Day for Universal Access to Information, our Florian Jug, Head of Computational Biology Research Centre - Multimodal AI Across Scales Programme, reflects on the role of shared technologies in making research more collaborative and accessible.

🧠 Science is always a collective effort: conducted in teams, across communities and through tools that allow more people to explore complex data. At Human Technopole, developing AI methods and shared resources means helping scientists find new insights, exchange knowledge and accelerate discovery for the future of human health.

25/09/2026

🔬 What happens when a physicist approaches a biological question?

🤝 For European Researchers’ Night, our Giulia Peveri, Postdoc in the Bienko Group at the Genomics Research Centre, reflects on the value of looking at the same problem from different points of view.

🧬 As a physicist working in a biology-oriented institute, Giulia experiences HT’s interdisciplinarity every day. By connecting ideas, methods and people across fields, researchers can approach complex questions from new angles and help science move further, faster.

25/09/2026

🔬 From a ferret embryonic cortex to the Milan metro: science can travel far.

🏆 Today, as celebrates its winners during European Researchers’ Night, meet our Emanuele Capra, PhD student in the Nereo Kalebic Group.

🧠 His image “La foresta della mente” shows an embryonic ferret neocortex, with progenitor nuclei in magenta and progenitors and neurons in green. Using confocal microscopy, Emanuele studies how cell morphology relates to brain development and cortical evolution.

🚇 The winning images are also on display across Milan’s metro stations.