Giulia Luraghi, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, has received the prestigious ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant of € 1.5 million over 5 years. ERC Starting Grants are aimed at researchers who have obtained their PhD degree for at least 2 years, up to a maximum of 7 years. The aim is to enhance the creativity and excellence of European basic or frontier research and invest in the best ideas, encouraging the quality and ambition of individual researchers.

With the PROTEGO project, Giulia Luraghi wants to reduce the high rate of post-procedural complications in case of aortic valve pathologies through the coupling of biomechanics and immunology.
In particular, it intends to develop a predictive model that is based on artificial intelligence techniques to estimate the post-surgery prognosis starting from the patient's biomechanical and immunological profile.
The patient-specific biomechanical profile is calculated through numerical techniques that reproduce the clinical procedure on the patient's "digital twin"; the immunological profile is obtained directly from the biological samples of patients enrolled at the Humanitas Clinical Institute in Rozzano and analyzed at the Humanitas University, a partner in the project.

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