University of Brescia

Overview

University of Brescia

University of Brescia or Università degli Studi di Brescia in Italian is a public research university located in Brescia, Italy. It was officially established in 1982 after a gestation of nearly two decades that began in the 1960s with the first attempts to bring university courses to Brescia. The university is acknowledged as one of the best educational institutions in the country with contributions in the fields of medicine, biology, and chemistry.

University of Brescia Key Statistics

The university is composed of one faculty namely the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and eight departments including the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Territory, Environment and Mathematics, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, and the Department of Economics and Management. There are 36 bachelor’s degree courses, 21 single-cycle master’s courses and master’s degree programs, and 10 Ph.D. courses on offer.

University of Brescia has approximately 14,000 students and employs 500 administrative staff. The university has sites all over Brescia and they offer facilities such as residences and housing, canteen, and sports center. Other University of Brescia key statistics include the university libraries that hold 588,000 documents including monographs, periodicals, and print journals as well as electronic journals, books, and theses.

University of Brescia Research

The university is recognized for its significant research output locally and internationally. Its top fields of research are medicine, biology, and immunology.

University of Brescia research teams have attended and presented at various conferences such as the Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference in 2006, The Web Conference in 2002, and the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication conference in 2007.

The most cited publications from the university are Fried et al.’s (2002) “Peginterferon alfa-2a plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection.” published in The New England Journal of Medicine with 8,400 citations, Klionsky et al.’s (2012) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy” featured in Autophagy and has more than 7,900 citations, and Miyakis et al.’s (2006) “International consensus statement on an update of the classification criteria for definite antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)” that appeared in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis which has over 6,700 citations to date.

Research centers at University of Brescia include the Center for Research and Technological Innovation in Traumatology, Hand Surgery, and Orthopedics, Interdepartmental Research Center for International Research in Mechanobiology, Study and Research Center of Applied Seismology and Structural Dynamics, Study Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Endocrine Neoplasms and Thyroid Diseases, and the Center for the Study of Immunodeficiencies.

The university has participated in international projects such as 2D4D - Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization, ACTAN - Automatic Control of Anesthesia, and AIPlan4EU - Bringing AI Planning to the European AI On-Demand Platform, which are Horizon 2020 projects. It also collaborates in other European projects like BULLET - Benchmarking Upper Limbs Loads on Exoskeleton Test Beds, DEASPHOR - Design of a Product for Substitution of Phosphate Rocks, and E-DETECT-TB - Early Detection and Integrated Management of Tuberculosis in Europe.