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The initiative, coordinated by the University of Verona, provided concrete results in the fight against Long COVID. 8th October 2024 – The ORCHESTRA Project, Connecting European Cohorts to Increase Common…

A new collaborative initiative, SUPPORT – Supporting the next generation of African experts on preventing mortality among children living with HIV through translational training, has officially launched. The project funded…

The European Commission has granted a fifteen-month extension to continue with the RBDCOV Project. So far, 240 volunteers have been recruited across all the centres set to join adolescents’ clinical…

Padova, 3 June 2024 – A new European multicenter study, named NeoDeco, will investigate whether optimised kangaroo care can reduce infection rates in preterm babies in neonatal intensive care units…

Padova, 3 giugno 2024 – Parte un nuovo studio europeo per verificare l’efficacia della kangaroo care ottimizzata, cioè iniziata alla nascita e prolungata nel tempo, nel ridurre le infezioni nelle…

Padova, Italy – 24 May 2024 Alarmingly high mortality rates persist for African infants with HIV despite early treatment, the Early Anti-Retroviral Treatment in Children (EARTH) study finds. The study…

Padova, Italy, 1st February 2024 – Penta – Child Health Research announced a new collaboration with IAVI and Achilles Vaccines to accelerate the development of treatments for HIV, emerging infections…

Johannesburg, South Africa, 30th January 2024 – This week, expert scientists and clinicians from PediCAP and SNIP-AFRICA, two major research partnerships combatting antimicrobial resistance, convene in Johannesburg to present groundbreaking results…

Padua, Italy – 9th November 2023 The NeoIPC Consortium is proud to announce the launch of a new surveillance toolkit to help neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) track and prevent…

Padova, Italia – 9 novembre 2023 Il Consorzio internazionale NeoIPC ha sviluppato un nuovo sistema di sorveglianza che permetterà alle unità di terapia intensiva neonatale (UTIN) di ridurre l’incidenza delle…

Padova (Italy), 27 July 2023 – A new European-African collaboration to improve the way infections in newborns are treated is launching today. The project, called SNIP-AFRICA, aims to reduce mortality…

Padua, Italy, 15 June 2023 – Penta, an international independent scientific network dedicated to maternal and child health research, is proud to unveil the Brighter Future Award (BFA), an annual…

Geneva, 8 June 2023 – A global observational study, which involved more than 3,200 newborn babies suffering from sepsis in 19 hospitals in 11 countries, has shown that many newborns…

Studio internazionale condotto da Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) e Penta – Child Health Research. Coinvolti 19 ospedali di 11 Paesi, l’Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù per l’Europa. La…

Il Consorzio VERDI, coordinato dal Dipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino (SDB) dell’Università di Padova e dalla Fondazione Penta ETS, ha ricevuto dall’Unione Europea un importante finanziamento di 5…

The VERDI Consortium, coordinated by the University of Padua and Fondazione Penta ETS (Italy), has received an additional €5 million funding from the European Union (EU). Thanks to this contribution,…

Padua (Italy), 7 December 2022 – Leading public health experts from around the globe are calling for urgent action to develop antibiotics for newborn babies, a population that is particularly…

Padova, 30 giugno 2022 Il vaccino Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 (Comirnaty) offre una protezione moderata dalla variante Omicron nei bambini dai 5 agli 11 anni. Lo dimostra un ampio studio appena pubblicato…