| Title | Funding Agency | Coordinators /partners |
| Prevention of invasive Group B Streptococcus disease in young infants: a pathway for the evaluation & licensure of an investigational maternal GBS vaccine (2019-2025) | EDCTP (non-profit) | St George University; PI for UNIMORE and Italy: Alberto Berardi. Subinvestigator: Francesca Miselli (partners: UK, the Netherland, France, Malawi, Uganda) |
| Neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants and infants with neonatal encephalopathy (2017-ongoing) | Mariani Foundation (non-profit) | PI for AOU Policlinico and Italy: Licia Lugli (partners: Italian centers) |
| Regional Surveillance of Neonatal Infections (2017-ongoing) | Emilia-Romagna Regional Government (non-profit) | PI for AOU Policlinico: Alberto Berardi (partners: regional centers) |
| Neo Deco study: Optimising Kangaroo care to reduce neaonatal severe infection/sepsis and resistant bacterial colonisation among high-risk infants in neonatal intensive care: a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel cluster randomised hybrid implementation – effectiveness study (2024-2026) | European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme; Fondazione Penta ETS (non-profit) | UNIPD (for Italy) PI for UNIMORE: Alberto Berardi Subinvestigators: Licia Lugli, Francesca Miselli (partners: UK, the Netherland, Switzerland, Germany, South Africa, Spain, Estonia, Greece) |
| EVENEW Study: Phase I single arm, dose-escalating and Phase II double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-finding Clinical Trial assessing safety and efficacy of intratracheal administration of allogeneic umbilical cord mesenchymal cells-derived Extracellular Vesicles in preventing Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in extremely preterm newborns (2024-2027) | EXO Biologics SA (profit) | UNIPD; PI for AOU Policlinico: Alberto Berardi Subinvestigators: Licia Lugli, Francesca Miselli (partners: several European study sites) |
| Validation of minimally invasive haemodynamic monitoring with Pressure Recording Analytical Method in critically ill newborns: prospective observational study comparing with echocardiography (2025-2027) | UNIMORE (non-profit) | PI for UNIMORE: Alberto Berardi, Co-PI: Francesca Miselli Subinvestigator: Licia Lugli |
