About us

The Department of Life Sciences and Public Health is an aggregation of several University Sections whose essential task is to integrate, in a multi and interdisciplinary way, scientific knowledge and research hypotheses on the topic of life medicine and its repercussions with public health, its organizations on a hospital and territorial basis. The heart of these aggregations is represented by the fact that they identify translational medicine and the related biotechnological applications as an essential matrix of research activities, of potential clinical impact and also of educational innovation. Therefore, on a basic model such as nascent life interpreted in its fullness from the preconception phase to the phases of neuropsychic development in the child, basic themes are grafted from the biological sciences to the histopathological sciences that integrate in an essential and innovative way the intimate relationships of nascent life, embryo-fetal development, maternal-fetal relationships and neonatal and postnatal development.

From this, the activity expands to the context of women's health declined in all its facets with very significant characterizations of the menopausal period and female cancers. In this last area, the application of innovative integrated therapies and the search for new and original prognostic factors that connect the biological areas of the Department with the clinical ones in a very significant way assume great importance.

The goal of the Department to be established is therefore to define research strategies that can find rapid application feedback on patients being treated, also with the aim of promoting large-scale multicenter studies, hopefully with international partners.

To better characterize the translational objectives and make them fully operational, the need arose to associate the Hygiene and Public Health section in the Department to make the transferability of data concrete, taking advantage of operational-organizational models also related to a high degree of characterization, of scientific nature and at the same time oriented to the context on which to place and make effective the products obtained.

University Department
Life Sciences and Public Health
Director: Prof. Stefania Boccia
Tel. 06 30154396
E-mail: stefania.boccia@unicatt.it

Department Secretariat
Tel. 06 30156177
dip.scienzevitasanitapubblica@unicatt.it