Gianna Milano

Gianna Milano, was born and lives in Milan where she completed her studies at Bocconi University. She specialized in scientific journalism at the University of New York (1984) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she attended the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships (1992-93).

For over twenty years, she has worked for the weekly magazine Panorama, first as a reporter and then as an editor, focusing on medical and scientific communication. Today she works as a freelance journalist for various publications. Her commitment to promoting the quality of scientific information and the relationship between media, science, and society took shape in 2000 with the Course for Science Journalists, OpenLab, at the University of Pavia in collaboration with the Department of Developmental Biology. Since 2003, she has been teaching science journalism at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste.

She is the author of several publications and books including: Blood and AIDS, History of an Italian scandal, Il Pensiero Scientifico Publisher 1995; Biethics, from A to Z, Feltrinelli 1997; When a child cannot read, Rizzoli 2000; The revolution of stem cells (with Chiara Palmerini) Feltrinelli, 2005; Story of an opportune death (with Mario Riccio), Sironi publisher, 2008.