Mit, an Italian among innovators under 35: "I was at Stanford and I came back, we also highlight who stays"

"To receive this prize is the dream of every researcher: I am very excited and being the first Italian to receive it makes me even more proud of myself. Italy You can do good research and it's an opportunity to highlight people coming back and not just talking fleeing brains". And it is the aspect that "makes me happier". He speaks like this at Ansa Francesca Santoro, the first Italian to be part of the 35 young innovators under 35 years old, who, every year since 1999, the Mbadachusetts Institute of Technology's technological magazine, Mit Technology Review, is selected as the most promising from all over Europe.

Francesca works at the center of the Italian Institute of Technology in Naples and has been awarded with Mii Innovators Under35 Europe for the project of the photovoltaic patch which regenerates the skin, accelerating the healing of injury. For the searcher "To say that my project was considered by a Internationally renowned jury deserving for the future positive aspects in the medical field is a big satisfaction and represents an additional motivation to continue with determination in this direction. "

Born in Naples 32 years ago and graduated from university Federico II Biomedical Engineering, Francesca, after having worked for three years in Stanford Universityshe returned to Italy in July 2017 to work at IIT, where she coordinates a international group conduct research in the field of bioelectronics. It is from these studies that the idea of ​​the patch is born 3D photovoltaic, a portable disposable, economical and flexible device, able to stimulate the regeneration of damaged areas of the skin, by accelerating the healing of wounds. "It's a research project base – observed Santoro – born to show if it is possible to use the conversion of sunlight into energy to accelerate the healing, in particular burns".