We are very pleased to announce the winners of the Italy Made Me 2026 award, selected by the Scientific Council of the Embassy among 57 participants who submitted their application.
For this year’s edition, 7 prizes will be awarded thanks to the generous support of our sponsors: Associazione Culturale Il Circolo, David Y Mason Foundation, Dottore London, Pirelli, FS Advisory and Callipo.
We warmly thank all the participants for the excellent curricula and research projects submitted. We wish you great success in your future careers.
| ERC sector | SURNAME Name | Project |
| LS | VELLA Viviana | Kinome-Wide Synthetic Lethal Screen Identifies PANK4 as a Modulator of Temozolomide Resistance in Glioblastoma |
| LS | TONIOLO Sofia | Combining plasma biomarkers with digital precision cognition metrics for Alzheimer’s Disease |
| PE | ROGOLINO Andrea | Floatable materials for liquid|solid|liquid solar-driven catalytic biomass upcycling |
| PE | COTROZZI Lorenzo | Pushing the precision frontier in Particle Physics with experimental contributions to the Muon g-2 puzzle |
| SH | PALESTRINO Mirko | The International Politics of Military Victory: The Making of a Concept in and through Time |
| SH | ZINGARETTI Mattia | Rethinking the “native speaker” in language learning, teaching and assessment: Bilingualism across language, cognition, emotion and education |
| SH | CLEMENTE Frances | Ecstasy in Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915) |
