2023
- Animal Research Tomorrow 3R ART Award to Aurora Montali for working at the project: The silkworm as an alternative non-mammalians infection model for screening new antibiotics.
- Prize to Aurora Montali for the best oral presentation at Congress XXIII Società Italiana di Immunologia Comparata e dello Sviluppo (SIICS), Naples, Italy. Presentation title: A Bombyx mori infection model for testing antimicrobial compounds against Staphylococcus epidermidis infections.
2022
- Prize to Nicolò Baranzini for the best oral presentation at XXII Congress of Società Italiana di Immunologia Comparata e dello Sviluppo (SIICS), Padova, Italy. Presentation title: Hirudo verbana as a freshwater invertebrate model to assess the effects of polypropylene nano and microplastic dispersion.
2020
- EMBO short-term fellowship to Daniele Bruno for research visitor at the University of KU Leuven, Geel, Belgium, on the project: Monitoring of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli transit through the digestive system of Hermetia illucens larvae.
2019
- Award to Nicolò Baranzini for the best PhD student in Biotechnology, Biosciences and Surgical Technology at the University of Insubria.
2018
- Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) to Daniele Bruno for attending at the 2nd International Conference ‘Insects to Feed the World’ (IFW 2018), Wuhan, China.
- Prize to Daniele Bruno for the best poster at XI European Congress of Entomology (ECE), Naples, Italy.
Poster title: Odorant binding proteins in the vetch aphid Megoura viciae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) display distinct expression patterns. - Prize to Nicolò Baranzini for the best oral presentation at XIX Congress of Società Italiana di Immunologia Comparata e dello Sviluppo (SIICS), Genova, Italy. Presentation title: AIF-1 and RNASET2 play different role in the modulation of leech innate immune response.
2017
- Award to Nicolò Baranzini for the best PhD student in Biotechnology, Biosciences and Surgical Technology at the University of Insubria.