“Lombardia è Ricerca” Award 2025: discover the International Jury

The composition of the 2025 International Jury for the “Lombardia è Ricerca” Award has been officially announced. This award, worth €1 million euro, is granted by Regione Lombardia to innovations and research of excellence, and the theme for this edition is “Innovative methods of early diagnosis or preventive medicine.”

The high prestige of the “Lombardia è Ricerca” International Award is reflected in the Jury: 15 top scientists, including a Nobel Prize laureate, selected in research areas related to the chosen theme. They were chosen based on the highest H Index, an indicator of a researcher’s academic impact, balancing the quantity of publications with the influence of citations, as calculated by Scopus, one of the largest academic databases.

The winner of the 2024 edition of the Award, Professor Alberto Mantovani, President of the Humanitas Research Foundation, has also been invited to join the Jury.

The Award Process: Towards “Research Day”

The applications for the “Lombardia è Ricerca” International Award closed on August 31st.

In addition to their contribution on the theme of the 2025 edition, applicants were required, for the first time, to present a translational research project to be carried out in collaboration with one or more public or private research organizations in Lombardy.

Now, the Jury will assess the applications and select the winner of the 2025 Award.

Regional Councillor Fermi: We are a Reference Point for R&I

“With the official announcement of the jury members,” comments the regional councillor for Universities, Research, and Innovation, Alessandro Fermi, “we are laying the first concrete brick for the 2025 edition of the ‘Lombard Nobel’. This is one of the most important events in my department, as it allows us to continue being a reference point for research and innovation—two essential areas for a region like ours. Once again this year, the names of the jurors are of the highest caliber, and I’m personally very pleased with Mantovani’s presence, the winner of last year’s edition.” 

The Award Ceremony at La Scala

The “Lombardia è Ricerca” International Award will be presented on November 8th at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan during “Research Day”, the major public event promoted by Regione Lombardia in collaboration with the Veronesi Foundation ETS, aimed at highlighting the results of research and innovation.

The 2025 Jury Members:

• Alberto Mantovani – President of the Humanitas Research Foundation and Professor at Queen Mary University of London
• Mark Lathrop – Professor of Human Genetics & Scientific Director, Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine, McGill University, Montreal
• Guido Kroemer – Director of the Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Paris, former winner of the “Lombardia è Ricerca” Award
• Kay Tee Khaw – Emeritus Professor of Clinical Gerontology, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
• Thomas C. Südhof – Professor of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2013
• Athanasios V.V. Vasilakos – Professor, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), Agder University, Norway
• Aldo Maggioni – Director of the ANMCO Study Center – Heart Care Foundation, Florence
• Massimo Filippi – Professor of Neurology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan
• Eva Negri – Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Bologna
• Massimo Francesco Piepoli – Director of the University Cardiological Unit for Perioperative and Rehabilitation Medicine, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan
• Maria Luisa Brandi – Director of the Rare Bone Diseases Research Group, AOU Careggi, Florence
• Paola Allavena – Head of the Cellular Immunology Laboratory, IRCCS Humanitas, Milan
• Hamid Reza Karimi – Professor of Applied Mechanics, Polytechnic University of Milan
• Amalia Gastaldelli – Research Director in Metabolic and Endocrine Pathophysiology, CNR, Pisa
• Paolo Melchiorre – Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Bologna
• Roberto Danovaro – Professor of Marine Biology and Ecology, Polytechnic University of Marche.

Want to know more?

Visit the profiles of the jurors on the “Lombardia è Ricerca” International Award page.