Research Areas and topics

The research focus of the Dipartimento di Biotecnologia e scienze della vita – DBSV concerns the well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In particular, the Biological Sciences and Technologies Section promotes innovative strategies in the most advanced sectors of industrial, biomedical, diagnostic, animal, plant, microbial, cellular and molecular biology and biotechnology also aimed at the production of goods and services, while the Medical and Surgical Sciences Section carries out clinical and research activities with the aim of improving the patient’s well-being.

The Dipartimento di Diritto, economia e culture – DiDEC pursues scientific purposes of a multi and inter-disciplinary nature thanks to the particularity of its training offer which, unique in Italy, allows to combine the studies in law with those of economic problems and those of interlinguistic and intercultural mediation, favoring mutual integration.
In particular, the Department aims to ensure, both in terms of research and in terms of training, the comparative and integrated study of social phenomena, analyzed in their normative, cultural and socio-economic meaning, as well as in the linguistic expression in which they manifest themselves, with specific attention to historical evolution and to the social contexts in which they are inserted.

The cooperation between different sectors has already produced appreciable positive results in the short life of this Department. In particular, it was possible to connect the study of multilingualism to the needs of economics and business and the study of coexistence and integration between different legal systems, cultures, languages ​​and religions to that of the mechanisms for resolving conflicts and disputes, with attention to procedural, mediation-conciliation and reparative mechanisms.

The research activity of the Dipartimento di Economia – DiECO revolves around the economic, business, legal and mathematical-statistical disciplines that characterize the educational offer of the Department itself.
In the autonomy of the individual scientific areas, the possibility of interdisciplinary comparisons in various research areas represents an important resource whose validity has been tested in the didactic field and which is progressively enhanced also in the research field.

The Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia (DMC) is a national and international reference center for clinical, translational, and basic research in the biomedical field. Its main areas of investigation include endocrine, metabolic, and cardiovascular diseases; geriatric cardiology; diabetology; clinical epidemiology; and pharmacology, with particular attention to immune and pharmacological responses.
The Department is also recognized for its research on the complications of Graves’ disease, its activities in pulmonology, and its contribution to the development of clinical guidelines and public health strategies.

In addition, the DMC conducts advanced research in cellular pathology, genetics and gene therapy, immunology, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health, integrating molecular, clinical, and epidemiological approaches.
Significant activities are also carried out in the surgical - particularly in gynecological, vascular, thoracic, and cardiac surgery - as well as in neuroscience, psychiatry, ophthalmology, and dermatology, with a strong focus on technological innovation, telemedicine, and artificial intelligence.
The Department’s multidisciplinary approach represents a distinctive feature, aimed at improving the quality of care and promoting scientific innovation.

Research at DIMIT is focused both on theoretical foundations and on translational and clinical applications, with strong interaction among biomedical sciences, engineering, AI, big data, omics sciences, and precision medicine. The Department promotes collaboration across disciplines and research groups from different fields, with particular emphasis on developing multidisciplinary research projects.

Key research areas include: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, Experimental Radiology, Molecular Biology and Tumor Immunology, Precision Medicine and Omics Sciences, Robotic Surgery, Telemedicine and Digital Pathology, and Developmental Neuroscience.

The Dipartimento di Scienza e alta tecnologia - DiSAT pursues the goal of harmonizing basic research with applied research, basing its raison d'être on a unified vision of scientific and technological research. The Department was created around the idea of combining hard sciences, or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) in a single research environment, without neglecting contributions from other disciplines, with the idea of promoting interdisciplinary research and to train students with a global scientific vision. Furthermore, this choice allowed us to be able to count on the advantages of scale usually possible only in large universities, without losing the agility of a small structure.
The research areas are represented by four Sections: Environment-Health-Safety-Territory, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics.

Research and knowledge valorization activities are coordinated by the Departmental Sections - Environment, Computer Science, Linguistic Mediation, and Humanities - which bring together researchers working in homogeneous fields.

In the current context of globalization and internationalization, the most innovative and distinctive aspects of the Department’s research - alongside the advancement of individual disciplines - include the breadth of faculty research interests and a commitment to creating fruitful multidisciplinary pathways. These initiatives are open to numerous productive national and international collaborations, which are frequently integrated with the Department’s educational activities.

The primary mission of the Department is to integrate scientific research with the needs of the Como and Varese areas. 
Through an interdisciplinary approach, which constitutes its defining feature, the Department promotes the capacity to generate positive impacts on society, also thanks to the funding it has attracted from a range of bodies, including the MIUR, the Volta Foundation, the CARIPLO Foundation, the One Ocean Foundation and the Rothschild Foundation.
DiSUIT researchers are actively involved in national and international collaborations and research groups.