The annual appointment with research is back UCBM. A week packed with appointments aimed above all at doctoral students, researchers and students, culminating on May 17 dedicated to the theme "Innovation and technology: the new frontiers for human health".

Indeed, the Research Day will host speeches by two internationally renowned scientists such as Garret A. FitzGerald e Guang Zhong Yang. The first, from Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, is a professor of Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, as well as one of the leading experts in the field of clinical trials.

Guang Zhong Yang, included by The Times in the 100 most important people in British science, as well as holding various academic positions within Imperial College (director and founder of the Royal Society/Wolfson Medical Image Computing laboratory, co-founder of the Wolfson Surgical Technology Laboratory, president of the Center for Pervasive Sensing), is director and co-founder of the Hamlyn Center for Robotic Surgery, an institution at the forefront of diagnostic and robotics research.