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47th ESPEN Congress for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism - ESPEN Society - Prague, Czech Republic - 2025
European Biophysics Congress - European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) - Rome, Italy - 2025
46th ESPEN Congress for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism - ESPEN Society - Milan, Italy - 2024
European Microscopy Congress (EMC) - Copenhagen, Denmark - 2024
Focus on Microscopy (FOM) - Genoa, Italy - 2024
109° Congresso Nazionale - Società Italiana di Fisica - Salerno, Italy - 2023
45th ESPEN Congress for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism - ESPEN Society - Lyon, France - 2023
Focus on Microscopy (FOM) - Porto, Portugal - 2023
Biophysics@Rome - The Roman Event for Biophysics and Biotechnologies - Rome, Italy - 2023
108° Congresso Nazionale - Società Italiana di Fisica - Milan, Italy - 2022
58th Annual Meeting - European Association for the Study of Diabetes - Stockholm, Sweden - 2022
Welfair - La Fiera del Fare Sanità at Maker Faire Rome - Rome, Italy - 2024
Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition - Rome, Italy - 2025
Le sfide dell'Intelligenza Artificiale - Corso di alta formazione, Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Settentrionale - Turin, Italy - 2025
Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition - Rome, Italy - 2024
Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition - Rome, Italy - 2023
Sinergie Digitali: l'ascesa delle Intelligenze Artificiali Generative - CNA Roma, Tecnopolo Tiburtino - Rome, Italy - 2023
Excellence Food Innovation - IX Edition - Rome, Italy - 2022
Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition - Rome, Italy - 2022
At Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition Giuseppe Maulucci talks about the personalized metabolic Avatar developed by Metabolic Intelligence Lab
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New handbook — Intelligenza Artificiale in Medicina
From the foundations of AI to clinical practice
Oct 17, 2026
Our new handbook is out with EdiSES Università. Written by G. Maulucci, T. Marchetti and C. Serantoni, Intelligenza Artificiale in Medicina takes the reader from the foundations of artificial intelligence to clinical practice, with guided hands-on sessions in Orange Data Mining and no coding required. 210 pages, ISBN 9788836232451.
Byo-me is now on Instagram
Oct 17, 2026
Byo-me, our AI nutritional assistant, has opened its Instagram account: @byome.app. Follow it for updates on the app, nutrition science from the lab, and how Byo-me turns everyday food choices into personalised metabolic feedback.
Five new papers from the Lab
Oct 17, 2026
Five new papers are out, spanning U2 snRNP inhibition in pancreatic cancer, seminal biomarkers of male infertility, subcellular photoprotection by rutin and punicalagin, masticatory dysfunction in trigeminal neuralgia and interoception in anorexia nervosa. All of them, with links to the DOIs, are on our Publications page.
Highly Cited Paper 2024–2025 in Nutrients:
Unraveling the Gut Microbiota
Aug 10, 2026
MDPI has listed Unraveling the Gut Microbiota: Implications for Precision Nutrition and Personalized Medicine first among the Highly Cited Papers 2024–2025 of the “Prebiotics, Probiotics and Postbiotics” section of Nutrients. The review — Abeltino, Hatem, Serantoni, Riente, De Giulio, De Spirito, De Maio and Maulucci — appeared in Nutrients 2024, 16(22), 3806 and has passed 100 citations, placing it in the top 1% of its publication year.
Press - The Quantum Metabolic Avatar:
a digital twin of human metabolism
Jul 24, 2025
Sanità Informazione reports on the Quantum Metabolic Avatar, a digital replica of human metabolism driven by quantum algorithms, developed at the Metabolic Intelligence Lab of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome together with Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli. Fed with real physiological data - diet, movement, weight - it simulates how an individual metabolism responds to a change in lifestyle, and is one of the first uses of quantum computation on real physiological data.
Figure: Fig. 1 from Abeltino et al., Expert Systems with Applications 2026 (CC BY-NC-ND).
Interview - Gut Microbiota and Precision Nutrition:
New Frontiers for Personalized Medicine
Mar 4, 2025
In this interview, we presented the new frontiers of clinical research focused on the integration of gut microbiota analysis with precision nutrition approaches. The conversation highlights the practical impact and future prospects of implementing microbiome-driven personalized medicine, with an emphasis on technological innovation, advanced clinical data collection, and the potential to improve management of complex and chronic diseases.
Interview - Precision Nutrition and Personalized Medicine:
The Key Role of Gut Microbiota
Jan 13, 2025
This interview discusses how advances in precision nutrition increasingly highlight the crucial role of the gut microbiota in metabolic regulation and personalized therapy. Recent evidence, summarized in our Review, emphasizes how microbiota influences lipid and glucose metabolism, gut barrier integrity, and immune response. Understanding the interplay between microbiota, diet, and host is essential for developing effective, personalized nutritional strategies.
Interview: A method to map tryglicerides accumulation in cell can lead to early detection of metabolic diseases
May 24, 2018
A fluorescent probe is able to follow lipids and their storage in living cells, as well as to detect metabolic impairments
Development of a new method to monitor type 1 diabetes and complications
November 11, 2017
A new method based on the alliance between metabolic imaging and machine learning was developed in our lab