Andrea Pizzi, Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Best Poster Award at the Congress IOPC 2019 (International Oligonucleotides And Peptides Conference).

The winner poster is related to “Minires”, a project financed by an ERC Proof of Concept Grant, aimed at the development of a new molecule that can be used both in cosmetic and biomedical sectors. Its chemical structure is simple, and it is easy to produce at low costs; the new molecule has been inspired by the resilin, a natural elastomeric protein included in the insects’ flexible structures.