Press Releases

Innovative risk-stratified care model aims to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, curb antimicrobial resistance and transform paediatric healthcare in resource-limited hospitals. Padova, Italy, 30 September 2025 PediSEP-1,

PADOVA, ITALY, January 28, 2025 — Questa settimana la Fondazione Penta ETS ha ufficialmente lanciato il progetto PIPELINE, un’iniziativa all’avanguardia volta a migliorare la preparazione e la risposta alle infezioni che colpiscono…

PADOVA, ITALY, January 28, 2025 — This week, the PIPELINE project officially kicked off, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at enhancing preparedness and response to infections affecting pregnant people and infants…

16 January, 2025 — The pioneering project READI — Research in Europe and Diversity Inclusion — a public-private partnership funded by the Horizon Europe Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) and driven by…

The initiative, coordinated by the University of Verona, provided concrete results in the fight against Long COVID. 8th October 2024 – The ORCHESTRA Project,

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 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.

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,

Johannesburg, South Africa, 30th January 2024 – This week, expert scientists and clinicians from PediCAP and SNIP-AFRICA, two major research partnerships combatting antimicrobial resistance,

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),

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.

Il Consorzio VERDI, coordinato dal Dipartimento di Salute della Donna e del Bambino (SDB) dell’Università di Padova e dalla Fondazione Penta ETS,

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…

Padua, 30 June 2022 – A large study on the effectiveness of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11 was published in 

Geneva, 26 April 2022 – A large study focusing on newborn babies with clinically diagnosed sepsis has revealed the impact of antibiotic resistance on neonatal sepsis, a major cause of…

Ginevra, 26 Aprile 2022 – Un importante studio sui neonati ha rivelato l’impatto della resistenza agli antibiotici sulla sepsi neonatale, una delle principali cause di morte tra i neonati.

Funded by the Horizon Europe programme, RBDCOV will test the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of the vaccine against the different variants of COVID-19 using a recombinant protein.

UCL press release A once-a-day antiretroviral medicine that is low-cost and easy for children to take is also more effective at suppressing HIV than standard treatments,

The results of the study show that there is no clear advantage for adopting a shorter 5-day course, with a loading dose, over the standard 10-day course in infants under…

Today we launch VERDI, a project that prioritizes women and children in the research on new coronavirus variants The University of Padua and Penta Foundation are leaders of VERDI,

A study published in the Pediatrics journal shows that children with mild forms of COVID-19 develop a greater and longer lasting antibody response than that of adults.

Università degli Studi di Padova, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie e Penta presentano nuovi dati sulla durata della protezione immunitaria contro SARS-CoV-2 nei bambini Uno studio pubblicato in questi giorni…

Parte da Padova il progetto europeo NeoIPC, che mira a ridurre le infezioni e la trasmissione di batteri resistenti nelle unità di terapia intensiva neonatale. Padova,

NeoIPC, a project seeking to reduce the transmission of resistant bacteria in neonatal intensive care units, has just launched.

Un progetto a guida italiana sostenuto da UniCredit Foundation Padova, 21 Aprile 2021 – Parte il progetto CORONA: bambini e COVID-19, sostenuto da UniCredit Foundation e condotto dalla Fondazione Penta di…

An Italian-led project supported by the UniCredit Foundation to study the impact of the coronavirus on children.

Today marks the official launch of UNIVERSAL, the newly funded European-African clinical research partnership that aims to develop two antiretroviral formulations for children living with HIV and to speed up…

On 30th January 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of 2019-nCoV a public health emergency of international concern. In his statement, Dr Tedros…

Geneva / Padova, Monday 4 March 2019 – The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) and Penta, the paediatric infectious diseases research network, have joined forces to tackle drug-resistant…

Antwerp (Belgium), London (UK), Marcy l’Etoile (France) – April 1, 2019 The University of Antwerp, bioMérieux and Wellcome Trust today announced the launch of VALUE-Dx, the first Innovative Medicines Initiative…