Italian professor of psychiatry at Sapienza University of Rome who received direct financial support from Jeffrey Epstein for an academic conference. Bersani organized the III International Congress of Neuroscience held in Havana, Cuba in November 2017, for which Epstein provided $25,000 in sponsorship. This payment was deducted from a prior $100,000 commitment Epstein had made, as documented in EFTA00970806 and EFTA00990069 from the DOJ file releases.
The arrangement reflects Epstein's broader pattern of cultivating relationships with academics through conference sponsorship and research funding, similar to his documented financial ties to Harvard, MIT, and other institutions.