Research

Ca’ Foscari Shines in EU Top 10 with 18 Prestigious ‘Marie Curie’ Grants

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice reaffirms its appeal to young research talents by securing European funding for 18 Marie Skłodowska-Curie projects, amounting to €5.5 million. This achievement positions the university among the top 10 institutions in Europe for the number of awarded fellowships.

Palladium against ovarian cancer: Ca’ Foscari patents head for the market

Research, particularly in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, can significantly affect people’s lives when a company supports its development and helps bring it to market. A recent example is the transfer of two patents from Ca’ Foscari University’s Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, which relate to a new generation of anti-tumour agents. 

Antarctica: Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a historic milestone for climate science. An international team of scientists successfully drilled a 2,800-meter-long ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Ice loss in Greenland’s mountain glaciers

Conducted by CNR-Isp, in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Universities of Freiburg and Copenhagen and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, the research used data acquired by satellites over 35 years and contributes to the understanding of the impact of global warming on the cryosphere. The results were published in the Journal of Glaciology.

2024 Nobel Prize in Economics to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson

The 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and James A. Robinson (University of Chicago), for their studies on how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. Professor Valerio Dotti comments on the topic.

Han Kang wins the Nobel for Literature: guest of Korean seminar in 2023

South Korean writer Han Kang, born in Kwangju on November 27, 1970, has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kang was a virtual guest at Ca' Foscari in 2023 for a seminar on Korean literature. We spoke with Prof. Vincenza D'Urso about the style and themes of Han Kang's writing.

Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’. We asked Professors Achille Giacometti and Guido Caldarelli (Theoretical Physics), and Marcello Pelillo (Informatics) for their comments.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for ‘computational protein design',and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for ‘protein structure prediction’. The comment of Alessandro Angelini, Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems.

A research project investigates Venetian inscriptions on Cyprus

Ca' Foscari's project “La lettera e il Leone" explores the Public Communication Strategies of the Serenissima through Texts and Stone Imagery. The Project Launches the First European Open Access Platform Dedicated to Venetian Renaissance Inscriptions.