The winners of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2025 Young Investigator (YI) Awards, and the first Innovator Award were announced yesterday at the Embassy of Italy in Washington during the annual ISSNAF event, the foundation that brings together thousands of Italian scientists, academics, and technologists active in laboratories, universities, and research and innovation centers in North America.
The recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement award is Prof. Pietro de Camilli (Yale University), whose work has revolutionized the understanding of how lipid membranes regulate communication in the brain. His studies on synaptic vesicles and phosphoinositide lipids have revealed how neurons recycle and remodel their membranes, with significant implications for the study of neurodegenerative diseases.
