Giovanni Parisi Award Granted to Chemical Sciences Student Alessandra Marano

The Giovanni Parisi Award was granted to the Federician student in Chemical Sciences, Alessandra Marano, for her thesis titled "Validation of an analysis method for the determination of trace elements in blood serum", with Marco Trifuoggi as the supervisor. She was considered the best among the 26 competitors and was awarded during the ceremony that took place on May 22, in the Aula Magna of the Conference Center of the University of Naples "Federico II" in Via Partenope, in memory of the scientist and Full Professor of General Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Naples "Federico II". Particularly significant for the award was the reference to environmental pollution and potential damages to human health in the papers that demonstrated the presence of heavy metals in breast milk, umbilical serum, and seminal fluid. Exposure from the very early stages of human life to these compounds can over time cause damage to the renal and osteoarticular system, neurobehavioral and developmental disorders, hypertension, and potentially even lung cancer. Moreover, the detection of heavy metals in selected subjects of reproductive age poses a risk to male reproductive activity, having observed, in the studies presented, quantitative and qualitative alterations of sperm in the adolescent and young population. What has been exposed, imposes the absolute necessity of drastic interventions by the authorities responsible for environmental control. The Award dedicated to the internationally renowned scholar and highly esteemed member of the Lions Club Napoli Host, was desired by Parisi's widow, Angelina Imparato, to promote the right to education and gender equality in access to scientific and technological degrees and to encourage and support the educational path of young people. The ceremony, introduced by Lions master of ceremonies Carlo Fusco and conducted by Lions Massimiliano Musto, saw after the institutional greetings by Rossella Fasulo, President of the Lions Club Napoli Host Club, as well as President of the Regional Order of Chemists and Physicists of Campania, Martino Di Serio vice president of the national federation of the orders of chemists and physicists, Concetta Giancola delegate of Federico II University and President of SCI Campania, Tommaso di Napoli Governor-elect of the District 108YA Lions International, Grazia Salerno who focused on the figure of Giovanni Parisi as a distinguished scientist, man of great personality and Lion, Goffredo Sciaudone Emeritus of Legal Medicine of the Second University of Naples who remembered his friend and colleague Giovanni Parisi and Vincenzo D'Anna, President of FNOB and his university student. The ceremony was concluded with the intervention of Pasquale Bruscino, Governor District 108YA Lions International. "Great space was dedicated to all the young graduates candidates for the Giovanni Parisi award and each of them received a prize, precisely to testify the essence of this initiative in the sign of the continuity of love for science and for the youth that characterized the life of our Member" states the president Rossella Fasulo. "This is the first edition of the Giovanni Parisi award and other events will follow in memory and by the will of my husband" - said the spouse Angelina Imparato. The Giovanni Parisi Award, in fact, was organized thanks to her dedication and obtained the patronage of the Campania Region, the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", the Pontaniana Academy, the Department of Chemistry and Biology of the University of Salerno, the National Federation of the Orders of Chemists and Physicists, the National Federation of the Orders of Biologists, the Order of Biologists Campania and Molise, the Regional Order of Chemists and Physicists of Campania, the Order of Pharmacists of the Province of Naples, the Italian Chemical Society - Campania Section, and the Lions International District 108Ya.