An Intersectional and Transdisciplinary Analysis of the Biobank for the Analysis of the Epigenomic Profiles of Women Victims of Violence
An Intersectional and Transdisciplinary Analysis of the Biobank for the Analysis of the Epigenomic Profiles of Women Victims of Violence
Friday, 11 July 2025: 09:40
Location: FSE004 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Oral Presentation
The Project “Violence against women: long-term effects on health for precision
prevention”, coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of
Health) and financed by the Italian Ministry of Health, mainly studies the possible
variations, over time, in the epigenomic profile of women victims of violence. In the project
the transdisciplinary approach allows, in the deeper way, the study of the violence effects
in the women's bodies and in their health condition. The study of epigenetic alterations
associated with stress-related pathologies in women victims of violence allows the
revelation of the scars that remain in the deepest part of the organism: the scars in the
genome, In addition of the developing of clinical and epidemiological tools for taking care
of patients and the developing precision medicine treatment paths, we can find in the
project the creation of a dedicated biobank for the analysis of the epigenomic profiles of
women victims of violence. In this way, this type of collected biocapital is no longer an
element that could be used in the market but this biocapital becomes an element and tool
of the Public Health sector – and of research, specifically social – to adequately face a
delicate and complex social phenomenon such as violence against women. The
relationship of the biomedical research, the clinical studies, the epidemiology and the
sociology is the challenge of this study which, through various projects, aims to focus its
attention on the subjects who become the fulcrum of a psychophysical recovery path
through the use of the various tools by various disciplines. In particular, the results of the
intersectional reading of the biobank project and the evidence of the transdisciplinary
approach applied to research will be presented: the hypothesis is that their combination is
as strategic in reading a complex social phenomenon as the use of tools such as the
biobank.
prevention”, coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Institute of
Health) and financed by the Italian Ministry of Health, mainly studies the possible
variations, over time, in the epigenomic profile of women victims of violence. In the project
the transdisciplinary approach allows, in the deeper way, the study of the violence effects
in the women's bodies and in their health condition. The study of epigenetic alterations
associated with stress-related pathologies in women victims of violence allows the
revelation of the scars that remain in the deepest part of the organism: the scars in the
genome, In addition of the developing of clinical and epidemiological tools for taking care
of patients and the developing precision medicine treatment paths, we can find in the
project the creation of a dedicated biobank for the analysis of the epigenomic profiles of
women victims of violence. In this way, this type of collected biocapital is no longer an
element that could be used in the market but this biocapital becomes an element and tool
of the Public Health sector – and of research, specifically social – to adequately face a
delicate and complex social phenomenon such as violence against women. The
relationship of the biomedical research, the clinical studies, the epidemiology and the
sociology is the challenge of this study which, through various projects, aims to focus its
attention on the subjects who become the fulcrum of a psychophysical recovery path
through the use of the various tools by various disciplines. In particular, the results of the
intersectional reading of the biobank project and the evidence of the transdisciplinary
approach applied to research will be presented: the hypothesis is that their combination is
as strategic in reading a complex social phenomenon as the use of tools such as the
biobank.