Assistant, Associate and Principal investigator positions in the three major research areas of TIGEM: cell biology of genetic diseases; molecular therapy; Systems Biology and Functional Genomics

A full time postdoctoral position is available for up to 36 months for a highly motivated scientist to carry out a research project funded by Arthritis Research UK in the laboratory of Prof. Rose Zamoyska, to identify the proteins interacting with the intracellular phosphatase, PTPN22

A pre-doctoral fellowship funded within the framework of the Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Scienze della Vita, MIUR, is available starting from March 2015 at the Cellular Neurophysiology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

E-democracy designates the set of institutional practices enabled by new information and communication technologies (henceforth ICTs). Such practices are supposed to help further the core values of democracy and have been suggested as a potential remedy to some of the shortcomings of current Western democracies. Specifically, so it is hypothesised, such ICT solutions could make up for the growing disaffection with political participation and the widespread discontent with contemporary political practices. The extent to which, so far, this has actually been the case, is still a matter of debate.

The growth and dissemination of tumor cells is determined by various alterations in genes encoding for proteins involved in the control of cell growth, proliferation, differentiation and cell death. In this contest, a key role is played by the pathway of PI3K/AKT/mTOR and alterations of the components of this pathway are involved in the pathogenesis of many human tumors (1).