2018: 
“Ricerca Scientifica: Giovani ricercatori” grant award of Fondazione Cariplo; Ruolo: Principal Investigator (Research Coordinator) in collaborazione con Università di Bologna e Fondazione per la Ricerca Biomedica / Università di Torino.
2017: ERA-CVD 2016 grant award for “Transnational Research Projects on Cardiovascular Diseases” of European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme; Ruolo: Principal Investigator (Research partner) in collaborazione con Hubrecht Institute (Olanda), Ulm University (Germania) e Weizmann Institute of Science (Israele).
2008-2017: Invited or selected as speaker in international and national conferences
July 21-25, 2016: Travel grant funded by ABCD (Association of Cell Biology and Differentiation) for the participation to the “12th International Congress of Cell Biology – ICCB 2016” (Prague, Czech Republic)
November, 2015: Invited commentary article: D’Uva G and Lauriola M, Shaping ERBB Signalling by Steroid Hormones, Journal of Steroids & Hormonal Science, 2016.
May, 2015: Our publication “ERBB2 triggers mammalian heart regeneration by promoting cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation” (D’Uva et al., Nature Cell Biology, 2015) has been cited by the National Association for Biomedical Research as an example of successful biomedical research that justifies the essential need for animals in medical research (NABR: The Essential Need for Animals in Medical Research)
April-May, 2015: Our publication “ERBB2 triggers mammalian heart regeneration by promoting cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation” (D’Uva et al., Nature Cell Biology, 2015) has been commented/highlighted in prestigious scientific journals:
• Nature – News and Views: Regenerative biology: Neuregulin 1 makes heart muscle
• Science – News: New hope for heart attack sufferers?
• Nature Reviews Drug Discovery: Research Highlights
May, 2015: Invited review article: D’Uva G and Lauriola M, Towards the emerging cross-talk: ERBB family and steroid hormones, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2016
May, 2015: Invited editorial article: D’Uva G and Tzahor E, The key roles of ERBB2 in cardiac regeneration, Cell Cycle 2015.
April-May, 2015: International media coverage (including The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, SKY NEWS, The Times of Israel, Il Sole 24 Ore and La Repubblica) for our publication “ERBB2 triggers mammalian heart regeneration by promoting cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation” (D’Uva et al., Nature Cell Biology, 2015).
October-November 2014: International media coverage (including TIME, Daily Mail and Huffington Post) for the collaborative publication “Diurnal suppression of EGFR signalling by glucocorticoids and implications for tumour progression and treatment” (Nature Communications, 2014).
December 2, 2012: Winner (first place) of the poster session of “4th Young Investigator Stem Cell Meeting” (Tel Aviv, Israel) organized by Israeli Stem Cells Society (ISCS)
May, 2011: The collaborative publication “CXCL12 secretion by bone marrow stromal cells is dependent on cell contact and mediated by connexin-43 and connexin-45 gap junctions” (Nature Immunology, 2011) obtained:
• the cover of Nature Immunology (May 2011)
• a commentary article in Nature Immunology (May 2011)
2010 – Sergio Lombroso fellowship for cancer research, Israel
2010 – “Marco Polo” fellowship for abroad research activity, University of Bologna, Italy
2008 – Fellowship at “Experimental Pathology Department” of Bologna University, Italy