Winner of the 2013 “5x1000 Outstanding Researchers Award” (awarded Euro 1,500) that is provided to the assistant professors of the University of Bergamo who have distinguished themselves for remarkable research results. Prof. Jack W. Szostak, 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has bestowed this academic award during the “PhD Day” of the University of Bergamo, Bergamo, October 7, 2013