Technological evolution in the field of diagnosis and medical treatment has turned the collaboration between doctors and engineers into a strategic element for a conscious and efficient use of new digital and data analysis tools, and of the so-called enabling technologies.

The joint research center Cardio Tech-lab, Modeling and Application for Human Health, result of the fruitful collaboration between the DEIB and the Monzino Cardiology Center, sanctions this transformation and aims at becoming one of the top innovation laboratories in the field of training, research and medical treatments, thus testifying to Politecnico di Milano’s commitment to the issues of people’s health and well-being.

CMCC’s mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society to provide reliable, rigorous, and timely scientific results as well as foresights and quantitative analysis of our future planet and society which will, in turn, stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop science-driven adaptation and mitigation policies in a changing climate.

CMCC collaborates with experienced scientists, economists, and technicians, which work together in order to provide full analyses of climate impacts on various systems such as, but not limited to, agriculture, ecosystems, coasts, water resources, health, and economics. CMCC also supports policymakers in setting and assessing costs, mitigation, and adaptation policies. Furthermore, the Centre promotes and carries out basic and applied scientific research and develops operational services with a high content of knowledge and technological innovation, in the various fields on which climate change has an impact, favoring collaboration between universities, national and international research bodies, local authorities and manufacturing sectors.
CMCC benefits from the extensive applied research experience of its cofounders institutions: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Università degli Studi del Salento, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Università di Sassari, Università della Tuscia, Politecnico di Milano, Resources for the Future, Università di Bologna.
It is organized in the form of a network distributed throughout the country with locations in Lecce, Bologna, Caserta, Milano, Sassari, Venezia, and Viterbo. The network connects universities and research institutes in a strongly interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at developing and promoting knowledge in the field of climate science.

The National Center of Oncological Hadrontherapy was born with the aim of treating radio-resistant or surgically inoperable tumours by means of protons and carbon ions, particles that belong to the category of hadrons. CNAO is also a Research and Development Centre whose activities range from radiobiological to translational clinical research, aimed at continuously improving treatment skills.
CNAO is excellence-oriented in the treatment of oncological pathologies through hadrontherapy, research and technological innovation.

The Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering has signed a Memorandum of collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the creation of ESA_Lab@PoliMI.

The agreement provides for a collaboration concerning the promotion of new research topics; the dissemination of knowledge through the activities of the laboratory; the organization of seminars, events and conferences; the implementation of activities related to the research topics of the Politecnico di Milano relevant to ESA; the possible participation of other industrial or academic subjects operating in the space sector.

As regards the governance, the Steering Committee will be chaired by the Director General of ESA and by Prof. Donatella Sciuto of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering.

The agreement, proposed by the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, provides for the establishment of a Joint Research Facility in Bioengineering and is aimed at fostering joint research programs in the Life Sciences. The main areas of the framework agreement are: Cardiology-Pneumology, Endocrinology, Neurology. The secondary areas are: Geriatrics, Hematology and Immunology, Rehabilitation.

The joint Human Tech & Care Research Center results from the close collaboration between DEIB and IRCCS Policlinico San Donato. It aims to providing an environment equipped with state-of-the-art software and hardware technologies, where physicians and biomedical engineers can work together and develop advanced clinically driven research as well as new solutions for clinical training.

The pivot of the joint research center is in the 3D and Computer Simulation Laboratory, whose activity is focused on cardiovascular applications, and whose mission consists in providing clinicians with new and more effective tools to exploit at best the information yielded by advanced medical imaging, in order to improve early diagnosis, prognosis, as well as surgical and interventional planning. The activities of the Lab cover computational fluid dynamics and structural mechanics to simulate the effects of pathologies and interventions, the processing of medical imaging for the direct computation of the in vivo mechanics of tissues and organs, the AI-based morpho-functional classification of anatomies and the use of 3D-printed phantoms to support interventional planning.

The joint research center “ONCO-TECH LAB - Modeling and Applications for Human Health” results from the close collaboration between IRCCS Istituto Europeo di Oncologia  and Politecnico di Milano.

This collaboration aims to providing joint research programs on life science, strengthening the coordination of mutual research activities.
In compliance with the recognition area and the research lines of the IRCCS and the research lines of the Politecnico, the contribution to the joint Research Center will be implemented by integrating skills and human resources within the priority objectives of the National Health Plan, the National Research, of the National Health Research Plan. The main research area will be oncology, while the secondary areas will be hematology and immunology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, transplantation and diagnostics.