OPEN CALLS! Three research fellowships are available at IBF Palermo. Calls for application can be downloaded under the "Announcements" menu.

NEWS! On 10 May 2012 at 11, Prof. Alvin L. Crumbliss (Department of Chemistry, Duke University, North Carolina - USA) will give a talk on: Complexity and The Microbial Search for Iron: How and Why (IBF conference room)

NEWS! Open call issued by Compagnia di San Paolo for funding of research projects in the Life Sciences Download details of research areas.

The Biophysics Institute

The Biophysics Institute (IBF) was established in May 2001 from the merging of five research centres of Italy's National Research Council (CNR). The Institute is based in Genoa and has four separate research divisions located in Milan, Pisa, Palermo and Trento.

The Institute is directed by Dr. Franco Gambale and currently has a staff of 101, comprising 56 researcher scientists, 28 technical staff and 17 administrative & support staff. In addition, around 33 research fellows, doctoral students and trainees are currently involved in IBF’s research activity.

Understanding Biophysics

A young discipline with ancient roots:

What exactly is Biophysics?
History of Biophysics
Biophysics @ the National Research Council of Italy

Contact us

The head-office of the Biophysics Institute is located in Genoa, at no. 6 Via De Marini, 13th floor. For general enquiries: info@ge.ibf.cnr.it

Research Focus

Focus on IBF Projects

Since December 2011, the Biophysics Institute’s research division in Pisa has been working on the European project “PERSEUS - Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas”, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (project leader Chiara Santinelli)

In 2008 the Biophysics Institute received funding from Telethon to carry out a research project led by Michael Pusch on “Mechanisms of transport and regulation by intra− and extracellular ligands of CLC proteins involved in human genetic diseases”

Events

Newsletters

The March issue of research*eu is now available. Research*eu is a European Commission magazine reporting results achieved within research projects funded by European Programmes.

Download highlights from the Biology and Medicine section of the magazine.

Istituto di Biofisica

CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche