Three researchers have received Marie Curie fellowships from the European Commission to develop projects at the University of Navarra. The Italian framework Demichelis and the Russian Sarali Gintsburg will be joining the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), the research center at Humanities and social sciences of campus, and the Spanish Maite Álvarez Rodríguez, at research center Applied Medicine (CIMA).

framework Demichelis graduated in Political Science and International Office at the University of Turin (Italy) and in programs of study Africans at Dalarna Hogskolan (Sweden). He holds a PhD in History of Islamic Political Thought from the University of Genoa (Italy). He teaches History of the Middle East at the University of Turin (Italy).

At ICS he will be working on the project 'Religion and Civil Society', where he will study the 'war verses' of the Quran. His purpose is to analyze the evolution of violence in the framework of the Islamic message from a comparative perspective.

Violence in Islam, creativity in language and cancer treatments.

Sarali Gintsburg studied Arabic language and Islamic programs of study at St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and received her B.A. in Arabic from the University of Helsinki (Finland). She holds a PhD in Humanities from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). She is currently working at School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (USA).

In the ICS it will be incorporated into the line of research 'The cognitive science of oral traditions and multimodal narrative', which is framed in the project '.Public discourse'. Her research focuses on language formulas in poetry and everyday language - which is closely related to human creativity. She specializes in the oral poetic tradition in the Arab world and in general linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Maite Álvarez Rodríguez has a degree in Biology from the University of the Basque Country and a PhD from the University of California at Davis (USA). At CIMA she will develop the project 'Promotion of cancer immunotherapy using killer cells for hematological and metastatic cancer'.

This consists of studying the mechanisms involved in the regulation of the function and activation of cells known as killer cells or Natural Killers (NK) in order to develop new strategies to manipulate these mechanisms and thus obtain NK cells with a prolonged and improved anti-tumor response. This strategy aims to improve the treatment of various cancers.

The European Commission awards Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships to contribute to the development of the research in the European Union. They are funded under the framework Program for research and development Technology (Horizon 2020). They are among the most competitive and prestigious grants awarded in Europe and are aimed at goal promote the professional degree program of talented researchers.