Garret A. FitzGerald of the University of Pennsylvania and Guang-Zhong Yang of Imperial College London

The annual appointment with research is back UCBM. A week full of meetings and seminars aimed above all at doctoral students, researchers and students, culminating on the day of 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.  

Both related to Science (Fitzgerald is Chief Scientific Advisor of Science Translational Medicine and Guang-Zhong Yang Editor of Science Robotics), scholars will meet PhD students in the afternoon to advise them on how to prepare for a peer-review process.

The research projects of the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering

The event will also be an opportunity to take stock of the state of the art of research UCBM. The Pro-Rector for Research, prof. Eugenio Guglielmelli, will in fact present the 2016 Research Yearbook and to corroborate the balance of the past year will be the story of the experiences of the two Departmental Faculties of Medicine and Engineering. Specifically, we will start from Process Engineering with Marcello De Falco, associate professor of Chemical Plants, winner of the "best paper" award within the ICMSET 2016 - International Conference on Material Science and Engineering Technology, held in Phuket, Thailand, from 14 to 16 October last year.

From Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development we will then move on to strictly medical topics with the teacher. Daniele Santini, Professor of Medical Oncology, who will report on the results achieved by the Oncology team (directed by prof. Giuseppe Tonini, Professor of Oncology) thanks to various publications on pain in bone tumors, on bone metastases and above all in the field of translational research aimed at studying the microenvironment in which tumor cells - again in bone tumors - proliferate.

Finally, the teacher. Mauro Maccarrone, Professor of Biochemistry, will illustrate the results of a study carried out with the Harvard Medical School and the Santa Lucia IRCCS Foundation. A work published on Science Translational Medicine which highlights new data on the efficacy of resolvins, those molecules that regulate the final phase of an acute inflammatory process, repairing damaged tissues and thus restoring the body's good health.

Research, clinical innovation and technology transfer: experiences and perspectives

Finally, clinical innovation and technology transfer will be discussed in the round table with Frances Pasinelli, Director General of the Telethon Foundation, Giancarlo High, Director of Center for Translational Medicine (CTM) of St. Anne's University Hospital (Brno) e Ariadne Menciassi of the Biorobotics Institute of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.

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