An Italian talent, Giulia Furini, returns to Italy, at the Institute of Life Sciences of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, to study the dysfunction of the heart-brain axis and help shed light on the mechanisms underlying aging to prevent neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, whose incidence increases with advancing age. Giulia Furini is a young biologist who, after five years of research in England at the University of Nottingham, returns to Italy, after winning a public selection for a research position, with a grant from the Institute of Life Sciences of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. Furini will work on the development of a new experimental model of the heart-brain axis dysfunction, a unique experiment, at the Translational Critical Medicine Unit (Trancrilab), coordinated by Vincenzo Lionetti, Professor of Anaesthesiology at the Institute of Life Sciences of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.