Our interest is to evaluate the impact of future food in the human healthy with focus on immunity and microbiome. For this purpose we will use in vitro and in silico models.

University of the Florence (UNIFI) is one of the largest research and higher education organisations in Italy, with 1,800 structured lecturers and researchers, around 1,600 technical and administrative staff, and over 1,600 doctoral and post-doctoral students.
The University participates in all the main funding provided by the European Union, first of all Horizon 2020 launched in 2014, but also in the thematic programs LIFE, Justice, the Erasmus+ training program and the Creative Europe program for the dissemination of culture, playing the role of coordinator in more than 40 projects.
Unifi has 21 Departments, including the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine where is located the Laboratory MIA-LAB (Microbiome-Immunity Axis laboratory) of which Prof. Amedei is the Director.
The great quality of Prof. Amedei international profile is documented by scientific production: 280 peer reviewed articles (h-index: 55 and 12,370 Citations), 12 book chapters and one patent ( https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603007335 ). To date he received more than of 10 million of euro by different proposals funded by several funding agencies, including Europe Commission, Italian Minister of Health, Tuscany Region, Nasa and local and international Foundations.