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Silvia Rizzo
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EU-Funded Research Project Manager || PhD in Neuroscience
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Help us shape the future of #DrugRepurposing 💊

Our partners from @egnosis.bsky.social are looking for scientists, clinicians, bioinformaticians & regulatory experts to test the Alpha version of our online platform.

Find out more 👉 tally.so/r/3XjAbd

🇪🇺 #HorizonEU @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"Only 13.5% of EU businesses are using AI.

This must change.

This year we will launch a broad AI Strategy for our continent, including an ‘Apply AI' initiative to drive industrial adoption of AI in key sectors."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on the EU Competitiveness Compass
January 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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How can we build a patient-centred approach to #DrugRepurposing? 💊

On 15 January we gathered a multi-disciplinary group of experts to discuss EU-wide models for drug repurposing, as part of our policy event hosted in Brussels.

Find out what they had to say 👉 repo4.eu/2025/01/24/r...

🇪🇺 #EUfunded
January 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Temperature-related deaths in European cities could increase by up to 50% by the end of the century in the absence of climate change-mitigation policies, totalling up to 2.3 million additional deaths, suggests a paper published in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/4glnYzU 🧪
January 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"Females exposed to LBN display heightened active fear responses, contrasting with males. [...] Sex-specific and stress-dependent alterations were observed in purine, pyrimidine, and glutamate metabolism within the BLA, the dHipp and vHipp"
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Sex-specific fear acquisition following early life stress is linked to amygdala and hippocampal purine and glutamate metabolism - Communications Biology
This study models early life stress (ELS) to observe sex-specific effects on fear memory formation using innovative unsupervised classification together with cellular metabolism alterations in key str...
www.nature.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Be part of shaping the EU's future! 🌍 Join us at the Policy Event on 15th January.
Help us advocate for a coordinated EU-wide reimbursement guideline for repurposed drugs 💊 🇪🇺

Join our first hybrid Research & Innovation Policy event on 15th January! Find out more and register to attend online or in-person: repo4.eu/research-inn...

#DrugRepurposing #EUfunded #HorizonEurope
December 23, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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“Bluesky seems to be the app where you post about being on Bluesky”

@jasonadamk.bsky.social for @newyorker.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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🌟Review Alert! We are excited to share our latest article, where we explore the effects of serotonergic #psychedelics and related substances (e.g., MDMA) on extinguishing and reconsolidating aversive memories, expressing fear/anxiety, and locomotion in rodents.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Psychedelics: A review of their effects on recalled aversive memories and fear/anxiety expression in rodents
Threatening events and stressful experiences can lead to maladaptive memories and related behaviors. Existing treatments often fail to address these i…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM