Boston. A teacher from Reggio Emilia’s Unimore was invited to the US for a two-month research visit. Marco Vinceti, professor of General and Applied Hygiene at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Metabolic and Neuroscience at the Reggio Campus that will spend this time at Boston University (USA) at Department of Epidemiology directed by Professor Martha Werler. Vinceti’s stay is aimed at joint research activities in the field of epidemiology and to promote institutional cooperation between Unimore and Boston University. The scientific collaboration, which has connected Marco Vinceti to the Department of Boston University for some time, covers important topics in environmental, nutritional and clinical epidemiology, including the epidemiology of two particularly serious and little known conditions: childhood leukemia and ALS, with particular focus on the study of their distribution in Emilia and identifying their possible environmental risk factors. (9Colonne)
