Prof. Tim Hunt, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, has awarded a scholarship of 1.000€, on December 13 2016, to Dott.ssa Alessandra Gallo for the publication “Spermiotoxicity of nickel nanoparticles in the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis (ascidians)” (Nanotoxicology, 2016; 10(8): 1096–1104).