Image from High-Throughput Screening Facility at ICGEB, run by the Funcional Cell Biology Group, headed by Dr. Luca Braga
ICGEB scientific publications and funding from the last quarter.
ICGEB scientists ranking in the latest “World’s 2% Top Scientists” for career-long citations (Stanford/Elsevier Data Repository) are Dr. Lawrence Banks, Dr. Emanuele Buratti, Dr. Sneh Lata Singla Pareek, and former PIs, Drs. Narendra and Renu Tuteja and Dr. Sudhir Sopory. ICGEB’s presence in the ranking has remained stable over recent years. The full classification is visible at: “Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators” – Elsevier BV
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Dr. Dinesh Gupta co-authored a paper entitled “AmpC β-lactamases: A key to antibiotic resistance in ESKAPE pathogens” in Cell Surface, in which 1,790 AmpC enzymes were identified in 4,713 complete genomes, classified into nine enzyme groups. Understanding AmpC enzymes is crucial for uncovering resistance mechanisms and guiding antimicrobial strategies.
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Dr. Luca Braga, Functional Cell Biology Group, has received a generous three-year grant from the CRTrieste Foundation for his work on identifying new therapeutic targets that stimulate lung tissue regeneration in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), for a project entitled “REPAir“.
