After the two doctors (Giulia Tresoldi and Manuela Bartolacci) and the physicist Maria Clara Corda winners of the Ermenegildo Zegna Foundation Founder's Scholarship In 2024, three Collegio Nuovo alumnae and University of Pavia students, all STEM majors, were once again awarded these prestigious scholarships in 2025. Thanks to the commendable initiative of the Zegna Foundation, graduate studies abroad are being funded for students selected from various Italian universities, with the commitment that they will return to Italy and contribute to their country's development.
I am a master's student in Industrial Nanobiotechnologies for Pharmaceuticals (Margherita Peirano) and two Chemistry graduates and IUSS graduates (Julia Pompilio e Elizabeth Bilotto).
Paris will be a common destination for Margherita Peirano e Julia PompilioThe first will conduct research at the Institut Pasteur to develop an organoid model of the mammary gland that can be used in oncology research; the second is planning an internship at the École Normale Supérieure for her IUSS thesis focused on the development of methods for the synthesis of C-aryl amides, important compounds in the pharmaceutical field: a great opportunity to create "greener" synthesis methods.
He will go to Lisbon Elizabeth Bilotto, for an internship at the "Microbial Stress Lab" of the Department of Chemistry at NOVA FCT, useful for the purposes of the IUSS diploma thesis project in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Specifically, her work will focus on the biochemical characterization of a protective enzyme present in the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection widely studied due to its high global incidence and excellent ability to acquire resistance to currently used antibiotics.
All three Alumni also received other significant awards this year: Giulia Pompilio won the Giacomo Bonaiuti Scholarship (for students of Lombardy universities enrolled in chemistry courses); Margherita Peirano won the Lionhealth SB Award established for the Alumna of the Collegio Nuovo Paola Lanati and Elisabetta Bilotto won the Internship Grant, established about ten years ago by theAlumnae Association of the New.
