NEWS and MEETINGS
1° MBIta Congress
1st MBIta congress
29-31 October 2026
Siena
41° SISC-MBIta Congress
The 41st SISC-MBITA Congress took place from October 2 to 4 (2025) in the Canizzaro Hall at the University of Messina. It was two intense days of high-level scientific communications, thanks both to the presence of invited speakers Prof. Karamanos and Theocaris and to the contributions of the many young people present and senior researchers from our society. Thanks to the local organizing committee of Messina for hosting us impeccably in their prestigious venue.
Memorial Notice
On July 15, 2025, Carlo Dell’Orbo, professor of Human Anatomy at the University of Insubria, where he taught from the university’s foundation until his retirement in 2019, passed away.
Trained in the prestigious Pavia anatomical school, Professor Dell’Orbo arrived in Varese as a full professor in 1992. Beyond his recognized academic and scientific stature, he immediately stood out as a figure capable of building: structures, relationships, and pathways. His contribution to the creation, also from a technical and organizational standpoint, of the Human Morphology Laboratory and its cutting-edge equipment was decisive, as was his contribution to the overall growth of the university. However, it is in the “building of people” that he left his deepest legacy: for his students and collaborators, he was a true mentor.
The group of professors, researchers, and students he trained is still active and cohesive, even outside the university, bound by a thread of professional and human relationships that endures over time. A researcher always drawn to the relationships between matrix molecules and pathologies, he was one of the founding members of the SISC, dedicating himself in particular to the study of collagen fiber synthesis and their supramolecular organization.
The board of directors and members of the SISC extend their deepest condolences to Professor Daniela Quacci and her family during this painful timeway.
Evelina Poletto won
D.Heinegard Award at the MBE 2024 meeting
The award was established to commemorate the work and figure of ECM biologist Dick Heinegard who was one of the pioneers in the study of cartilage tissue. This award is given to the most promising young European researcher in the field of ECM with no more than five years of post-doctoral experience. This year, during the MBE 2024 meeting held in Lyon at the end of September, Dr. Evelina Poletto, researcher at the CRO-IRCCS of Aviano (Italy) in the Angiogenesis and Tumor Microenvironment laboratory directed by Dr. Maurizio Mongiat, was awarded. Evelina gave an oral presentation entitled “Multimerin-2 expression in the endothelium restrains cancer cell dissemination”. It is a source of pride for our Italian matrix society to have selected and supported Evelina in participating in this competition. Congratulations Evelina!