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1 Pagina 1 di 5 Ning Create Your Own Social Network Search Social Network Search Raffaella Sign Out California Non-profit Association Main Invite My Page Members BlogOnItaly Italy Events Tech Pics Tech Videos ABOUT US All Blog Posts My Blog Add a Blog Post Does it Take an Italian Mom? Seven Women Innovators Posted by bianca dellepiane on March 9, 2009 at 9:24pm Send Message Add as Friend View bianca dellepiane's blog In the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, seven Italian women innovators who have been able to balance a succesful career and family are part of the Italian Women Innovators and Inventors Network (ITWIIN).

2 Pagina 2 di 5 Raffaella Mangiarotti, (in the picture) Industrial Designer She is 43 years old, from Pavia, has an 8 years old child. She taught at the Design Department of the Polytechic of Milan and works at the studio Deepdesign. Her accomplishments: she invented a Whirlpool washer that obtained the ID Award in the US in 2004, chemical lighting activated by music, a toothbrush that facilitates tooth cleaning and a Dandelion lamp feratured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is currently working on a hair dryer that can be used without having to lift one's arms. Luisa Lo Iacono, Neuroscientist She is 32 years old, recently married. She is doing a post-doc at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) after having studied at the UIC in Chicago and the EMBL in Heidelberg. She is an expert in the pathogenesis of anxiety. Her accomplishements: the discovery of the involvement of an area of the brain, the hippocampus, in anxiety disorders and the discovery of an enzyme that can cause the developemnt of such disorder. She is now working on the development of new drugs to cure disorders of the central nervous system. Regarding women researchers she says: "It would be helpful if research institutes would provide daycare within their premises." Maria Savina Pianesi, Chemist She is 39 years old, married, has a 2 1/2 year old daughter. She directs the Chemical Lab for R&D at Teuco Guzzini, an Italian manufacturer of whirlpool bathtubs and showers made from methacrylate and tempered glass. Her accomplishments: she has several patents on innovative materials for glass kitchen sinks. She is currently working on a composite lighter than wood with an easy-clean surface: the water on this innovative surface forms rounded drops reducing limestone deposits. Viviana Annibali, Biologist She is 33 years old, married with a one year old daughter, she is a biologist at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". For years she has been studying the genetic expression in patients with Multiple Sclerosis, the greater cause of non-trauma related disability in young adults. About her accomplishments: she says: "One of the most important moments in my career is the patenting, with 4 co-authors, of the results of a study where, analysing identical twins (one healthy and one affected by MS) we found an important molecule involved in the mechanisms of this disease." Raffaella Abbate, Designer and Entrepreneur She is 36 years old, married with two children, has founded three years ago the company "I Rikyestissimi" Her accomplishments: She invented the Sleep&Go, a baby carrier with 16 applications, she has won first place in the Innovation category of the "Impronta d'impresa" Award instituted by the Ancona Chamber of Commerce. About women she says: "We are also mothers and should be helped rather than encumbered. Maternity is a positive situation that can generate new types of professions". Irene Martini, Biologist She is 41, lives in Rome with her partner and their three children. She is Scientific Director at SmartBank and Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She is also scientific consultant for the Women of the Mediterranean Project and the U.S. Parents Guide to Cord Blood Foundation. Her accomplishments: She has developed vaccines against gastroenteritis and founded Smartbank, an Italian company that offers cryogenic storage in full observance of the Italian law, She is curently studying new applications of stem cells from cord blood. About women researchers she says: "It would help if they were more respected. Overseas I never had problems to affirm my ideas but in Italy the road to equality is still long". Carla Marchioro, Chemist

3 Pagina 3 di 5 She lives in Verona with her husband. She is the Director of the GlaxoSmithKline R&D Analytical Chemistry Group of Verona & Zagabria. About her job, she says: "It is all-involving to contribute to the cure of sick people. In my job I feel moved every day, because every day is a new conquest". She is part of an international group that works on drug development. Sources: Stile.it and Gravita' Zero Tags: innovators, itwiin, women Share < Previous Post Next Post > Add a Comment Add Comment Raffaella Sign Out Inbox Alerts Friends Invite Settings Quick Add About Bridges to Italy bianca dellepiane created this social network on Ning. Create your own social network! Share Us!

4 Pagina 4 di 5 Events Nanotec2009.it March 31, 2009 to April 3, 2009 National Research Council Nanotec2009.it, an International Conference jointly organised by AIRI/Nanotec IT, the National Research Council (CNR) and Veneto Nanotech, with the collaboration of the Italian Institute for Foreig... Organized by AIRI/NANOTEC Type: nanotech, event BIOINITALY 2009: WHERE ITALIAN BIOTECH COMPANIES MEET INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS May 4, 2009 at 8am to May 5, 2009 at 6pm Milan, Italy Assobiotec, the Italian biotech industry association, is proud to present BioInItaly May 4-5 in Milan, Italy. This event will bring together national and international venture capitalists... Organized by Assobiotec Type: Biotechnology, Event SOLAREXPO May 7, 2009 to May 9, 2009 Verona Fair Grounds International exhibit and conference on renewable energy and distributed generation. Held in Verona, in just 5 editions has become the leading event in Italy and the most visited in Europe. In Organized by Expoenergie Type: renewable, energy, convention ESOF2010 Euroscience Open Forum July 2, 2009 to July 7, 2009 Lingotto SOF Euroscience Open Forum is the biennial European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation created by Euroscience. The great questions of science and technology, emerging scien... Organized by TopESOF - Torino per ESOF Type: scientific, research, and, innovation Festival della Scienza - Science Festival October 22, 2009 at 8am to November 3, 2009 at 11pm Genoa, Italy For the 7th Festival della Scienza generally recognised as the major science dissemination event in Europe - with 250,000 visitors and hundreds of events, the key word is FUTURE. The Festival...

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