12 August 2015 – Italian Professor Ilaria Cacciotti – famous for having invented a method to prevent rejection in organ transplantation to treat Parkinson’s disease – has been invited to be part of the Graduate Students Assessment Commission of the Friedrich Alexander Universität of Erlangen (Nuremberg), which provides a significant contribution to research in the field of release capacity for therapeutic drugs. The lecturer at the Engineering Department of Niccolò Cusano University in Rome has long enjoyed a considerable international prestige, having already won in 2011 the “UNESCO – Women for Science” prize for having proposed an innovative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. The “Department of Materials Science and Engineering” of the Italian university and the Engineering Department of the German university are partners within the Erasmus program for student, researcher and teacher mobility. (Red)