Award for the best presentation at SIF 2024

Dr. Erika Ponzini, a member of COMiB, received the first prize for the best presentation in Section 5: Biophysics and Medical Physics at the 2024 National SIF Congress, for her talk titled “Intraday and day-to-day variability of the tear proteome”. A heartfelt thank you to the Scientific Committee and SIF for this significant recognition. The awards will be presented during the opening ceremony of the next SIF Congress, scheduled from September 22 to 26, 2025, in Palermo.

The list of awardees is available at the SIF website.

The XXX Francesco Ferrante National Optometry Award to Prof. Borghesi

Alessandro Borghesi, professor emeritus of Milano-Bicocca and director of COMiB, was awarded the Francesco Ferrante National Optometry Award, established at the initiative of the family and a group of colleagues of the optometrist who died in 1986.

Professor Borghesi, who was the first in Italy to promote the activation of a graduate course in Optics and Optometry (established since 2001 at the University of Milano-Bicocca), has been coordinating the activities of COMiB since 2015.