We are grateful for the following funding support:


20011-14: EC VIIth Framework action in BIO-ICT “Choreographing neural networks: CORONET”
2009-12: Human Frontier Science Programme “Decoding and recoding sensation”
2008-11: EC VIIth Framework action in BIO-ICT “BIOTACT”
2008-11: Compagnia di San Paolo “Tactile intracortical processing”
2006-11: Italian Institute of Technology “NeuroTelemetry”
Co-investigator of the following grant, where prof. Ehsan Arabzadeh is Chief-investigator in Sydney:
2009–12: Australian Research Council “Sensory coding mechanisms in rat somatosensory system: A combined behavioural and electrophysiological approach”

Concluded Projects

2004-06: Italian Ministry of Universities and Research Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity
2004-06: Human Frontiers Science Programme Spike choreography: role of neuronal dynamics in sensory-motor encoding and decoding
2003-04 EC - Marie Curie action Quantitative study of information processing in rat somatosensory cortex.Host laboratory for Miguel Maravall.
2002-06 Telethon Onlus Plasticity of the cerebral cortex during learning
2001-06 EC VIth Framework action in BIO-ICT Artificial Mouse
2001-04 J.S. McDonnell Foundation Cortical representation and storage of tactile events

Smaller Grants

In the last 10 years the laboratory holds or has held 6 smaller grants or fellowships. Funding agencies are: the Royal Society, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, the regional government of Friuli Venezia Giulia (n=2), the Wellcome Trust, and the Italian National Research Council.

Grants awarded at earlier career stages

Funding prior to the current 10-year period includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (rarely awarded to investigators outside the United States), Whitehall Foundation, Telethon Onlus, Italian National Research Council, Italian Ministry for University and Research, Whitehall Foundation, and NATO.

last modified: 20 October 2011