• The collaboration between research subjects, public or private, academic or commercial, national or international
• The formation of young researchers
• The organization of didactical activities for undergraduated and graduated students
• The promotion of seminars and congresses dedicated to Tissue Engineering
• The development of products and services for the national health system

Our researches are in the field of:

• Tissue Engineering, especially related to bony and muscular tissues
• Analysis of the immunological and biochemical properties of bacterial adhesins for components of the extracellular matrix proteins
• Interaction of different type of biomaterials with eukaryotic cells such as human osteoblasts, fibroblasts, platelets and macrophages (biocompatibility and citotoxicity studies)
• Tissue engineering studies using stem cells and different type of scaffolds
• Studies on bacterial infection (caused by S.aureus, S.epidermidis and E.coli strains) to biomaterials and strategies to avoid such infections
• Bioinformatics for Tissue Engineering
• Translational Bioinformatics
• Data warehouse approaches for intelligent exploration of phenotypic data
• Automated and integrated search on biological data and knowledge repositories
• Text mining of scientific literature
• Reasoning and decision support systems, that is, the definition of a workflow management environment following an epistemological model of scientific reasoning, in order to allow researchers to structure and organize each step of scientific discovery and results demonstration
• Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits
• Development of new analytical methods for genomic data analysis using machine learning- and information theory-based approaches
• Genomics
• Temporal clustering of gene expression time series using temporal abstraction-based clustering of gene expression profiles and Bayesian clustering of gene expression profiles
• Gene network reconstruction using methods based on Bayesian networks and precedence temporal networks
• Proteomics
• New strategy for the analysis of SELDI/MALDI-TOF serum data to develop diagnostic methods based on proteomic profiles of body fluids generated by mass spectrometry
• Identification of morphological and molecular markers that define the mammalian oocyte’s developmental competence
• Analysis of the pathways of gene expression in oocytes during folliculogenesis, also following the alteration of the expression of genes involved in the acquisition of the oocyte’s developmental competence
• Analysis of the meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin during male meiosis in mice carriers of chromosomal structural heterozygosities
• Study of the molecular mechanisms that alter the differentation of embryonic stem cells into cardiomiocytes cultered in the presence of xenobiotics (e.g., dioxin) 
• Pluripotent stem cells (e.g., embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells, iPS) as in vitro models for the study of thrombopoiesis and inherited thrombocytopenias
• Biological effets of radiations on pluripotent stem cells
• Scaffolds for tissue regeneration
• Physico-chemical and biological evaluation of new biopolymers for bone regeneration
• Development of scaffolds for bone regeneration made of a new biopolymer
• Development of scaffolds for stem cell delivery
• Study of new scalable preparation methods for 2D and 3D polymeric scaffolds
• Preparation and characterization of drug-hydroxyapatite nanocomposites for target delivery to bones
• Investigations on the influence of gamma irradiation on (biodegradable) polymeric scaffolds in in vitro/in vivo performances
• Drug delivery systems for biotech drugs
• Development of a one shot vaccine formulation based on polymeric nanoparticles
• Development of a microparticulate bioadhesive buccal formulation for the target delivery of anti-caries drugs to teeth