Dr. Gaia Faustini was the winner of the award for the best publications in the field of neurodegenerative diseases of Young Researchers operating in Italy (2018), sponsored by the Telethon Foundation and Farmindustria.
The publication is “Synapsin III deficiency hampers alpha-synuclein aggregation, striatal synaptic damage and nigral cell loss in an AAV-based mouse model of Parkinson’s disease” (Acta Neuropathol. 2018 Oct; 136 (4): 621-639) , by Gaia Faustini, Francesca Longhena, Tatiana Varanita, Luigi Bubacco, Marina Pizzi, Cristina Missale, Fabio Benfenati, Anders Björklund, PierFranco Spano, Arianna Bellucci.
Dr. Faustini (in the photo in the center) attends the Pharmacology Section of the Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine as a Research Doctorate in Technology for Health.