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Politecnico di Milano: GLOBAL HOTSPOTS WHERE NEW CORONAVIRUSES MAY EMERGE

Share Agricultural expansion, human settlements, concentrated livestock production and forest fragmentation. These are just some of the global land-use changes, unsustainable for the environment, which have taken place in recent years. These changes are creating “hotspots”, that are areas where conditions are ripe for the transmission of coronaviruses from wild animals to humans. This is what emerges from a study just published in Nature Food, by a team of researchers composed of Maria Cristina Rulli and Nikolas Galli of the Politecnico di Milano, Paolo D’Odorico of the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and David Hayman of Massey University (New Zealand).

Two UoC professors win the most prestigious European research grants

 E-Mail The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded the two UoC researchers Professor Dr Michael Bollig and Professor Dr Stephan Schlemmer with an ERC Advanced Grant. Bollig is being funded with approximately 2.5 million euros for his REWILDING project. Schlemmer will also receive 2.5 million euros in funding for his project MissIons . The ERC Advanced Grant is considered the most important funding award in the European research landscape. ERC Advanced Grants are awarded to outstanding scholars and scientists for projects that are associated with uncertainties due to their innovative approach, but which may open up ground-breaking new paths in their respective fields. Funding is granted to researchers who have worked consistently and successfully at the highest level for many years.

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