ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Lilly Foundation for Italy announces the winners of the first edition of the 30X30 Programme, the ten-year initiative with which the Foundation aims to invest more than 1.5 million euros to finance 30 PhDs in 30 Italian universities, with the aim of forming a new generation of researchers specialized in health policies and governance of the National Health Service. During this first edition were more than 80 projects presented by Universities and research centres from 12 Italian regions – Lazio, Veneto, Tuscany, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Campania, Piedmont, Molise, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige and Sardinia. The high number and scientific profile of the applications received demonstrate the vitality of the Italian academic system and the growing demand for structured collaboration between the public and private in the promotion of research. The evaluation of the projects was entrusted to the Advisory Committee of the Lilly Foundation and conducted according to three fundamental criteria: the scientific quality and the level of innovation of the projects; the curriculum of the scientific manager and finally the quality of the training plan congruent with the structural, technological and instrumental resources available for its development. The three bands of the first edition are: Artificial intelligence in diagnostics and clinical paths; Equity of access to care; Use of predictive models in health programming. These winning projects:Bando 1 – “Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics and Clinical Paths – Predictive Use and Care Customization”: winner of the University of Pavia with the project “Epistemologically grounded generating artificial intelligence for differental diagnosis and personalized therapy planning”;Bando 2 – “Equity of access to care – Tools, measurement and policies aimed at ensuring horizontal and vertical equity”: winner of Rome Bando 3 – “Use predictive models in health programming – Use of innovative models and data-driven models for health programming”: winner of the University of Milan-Bicocca. “We are happy and proud that this first edition of the 30X30 Programme has recorded such a wide and high-profile participation, with over 80 projects from 12 Italian regions. All the projects received were distinguished by the high scientific level, confirming the quality and vitality of the national academic system” – said Federico Villa, General Manager of the Lilly Foundation for Italy. – “The high number of projects presented confirms how public-private collaboration today represents a strategic model to enhance the talent of new generations and to face with promptness and concreteness the health challenges of the future. Promoting a shared culture that recognizes the value of research means investing directly in the health of people and in the sustainability of tomorrow’s health system and Lilly Foundation wants to contribute concretely and lastingly to this path.” “Now ready to open a new chapter of our commitment to support the sustainable development of our universal public health service – said Benedetta Bitozzi, Director of External Relations of the Lilly Foundation for Italy – our goal is to create, from this year already, a structural platform of comparison among all the actors of the Italian health system in which the new models of health policy identified by the PhDs can take shape in proposals of efficiency and simplification regulations. We will open this platform to other partners who, together with us, want to continue to support accessto health in Italy increasingly fair, uniform and sustainable, contributing to valorise the great commitment of the Ministry of Health, AIFA and Regions to accelerate access to opportunities for innovative care”. -photo press office Lilly –(ITALPRESS).
