Istituto Nazionale di Biostrutture e Biosistemi - INBB / Biostructures and Biosystems National Institute

The Istituto Nazionale di Biostrutture e Biosistemi (I.N.B.B.) – Biostructures and Biosystems National Institute is an interuniversity Consortium which has received the recognition of the legal personality with a ministry decree DM – MURST of 11/12/1995 and it is supervised by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific and Technological Research (MIUR). The MIUR appoints two members in the Board of Directors and the 3 members of the Board of Auditors (the President of which is an officer of the Ministry of Economics).

For the five-year period 2014-2018, the President is Prof. Giovanni Antonini, the Vice President Prof. Aldo Roda and the Director is Dr. Pietro Ragni.

The INBB activity consists mainly in the management of scientific projects on research and training (both national and international), the INBB Research Units are directly involved within the universities; a particular interest is given to European Union Programmes. Thanks to the fulfilled projects and the prestige of the participant researchers’ papers, the Consortium have had a very positive judgment within the VQR (Research Quality Assessment) 2006/10 exercise by ANVUR.