IIT and Partners
MINDED is led by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology – IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and involves 16 partners in Europe, Usa and Israel, comprising 11 research centers and universities and 6 non-academic institutions
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Prof. Paolo Decuzzi
Prof. Paolo Decuzzi is the coordinator of the MINDED project and the director of the Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine at IIT. The Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine focuses on the rational design of polymeric nanoconstructs for multi-modal imaging and combination therapy; fabrication of microfluidic chips for screening of nanomedicines; and development of hierarchical multi-scale computational models.

Prof. Stefano Gustincich
Stefano Gustincich is the coordinator of the Molecular Neuroscience line in MINDED and the director of the Laboratory of Non-coding RNAs and RNA-based Therapeutics at IIT. At the intersection of neurobiology and genome science, neurogenomics is the study of how the genome as a whole contributes to the evolution, development, structure, function and disease of the nervous system.

Prof. Cristina Becchio
Prof. Cristina Becchio is the coordinator of the Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics line in MINDED and the director of the Laboratory for Cognition, Motion and Neuroscience at IIT. The Cognition Motion and Neuroscience unit investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying motor cognition. To do this, we call upon a diverse array of research methods, including quantitative behavioural and neuroimaging techniques.

Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska
Agnieszka Wykowska is the coordinator of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction line in MINDED and the director of the Laboratory for Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction (S4HRI) at IIT.