Roche Prize for the most outstanding lecture at the Roche "Symposium for Leading Bioscientists of the Next Decade"
Basel, Switzerland 19-22 March

National prize "Luigi Casati" from the "Accademia dei Lincei" for the best graduation thesis in Medicine defended during the year 1996

Prize "Luigi Manara" from the University of Perugia for the medical student with the best academic curriculum

Third Prize in the Section "Young Poetry" at the
VI National Literary Contest "Val Formazza '89"

First Prize in the Poetry Section at the National Literary Contest "Gotto d'Oro dei Castelli Romani"

First Prize at the National Contest for Young Writers sponsored by the A.M.M.I. Association of Bologna-Italy

Second Prize at the National Literary Contest " European Roots" sponsored by Fondazione R.U.I. Rome