The 27th academic year inaugurated in the name of the future and growth, sustainable development, the circular economy and personalized therapeutic solutions. The biggest challenge is to continue to "take care" of the person with high-impact research and global, multidisciplinary and international training. The "Quantum Revolution" at the center of the professor's speech Massimo Inguscio, full professor of physics of matter

 

Rome, 8 November 2019 - “Taking care means having responsibility. Solidarity, mutual help, contrast intolerance, hatred, opposition. Who can imagine, who can understand what the world of the future will be like? The answer is enlightening: ask your children”. With these words the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella addressed the audience present in the main hall of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and to the many students, doctors, healthcare workers and employees who followed the inauguration ceremony of the 27th academic year of the Roman university. A day that involved the young people of the university and the over two thousand professionals who every day animate a community committed to the education and health of people and welcome patients from Rome, Lazio and numerous Italian regions every day within the university hospital.

In the presence, among others, of the rectors of numerous Italian universities, of the mayor of Rome Virginia Rages, of the prefect Gerard Pantalone and the Councilor for Health of the Lazio Region Alessio D'Amato, the President of the Republic wanted to underline the value of the commitment to responsibility and the common good: “Children perceive when there is a sense of responsibility and not indifference in adults. They still ask – for those who know how to understand them (and it is easy for children to understand) – solidarity, mutual help, in fact, against intolerance, hatred, confrontation. They are not rhetorical alternatives; these are not abstract alternatives, but extremely concrete ones. If someone arrives on a bus to say to a seven-year-old girl 'you can't sit next to me because your skin is of a different color' or if to an elderly lady like Liliana Segre, who has never hurt anyone but the evil she suffered as a child in a cruel way, it is necessary to ensure an escort, it means that these questions are neither abstract nor rhetorical. But they are concrete”.

A ceremony in the sign of the future and therefore of responsibility, starting from the messages contained in the inaugural address "Quantum revolution: the future is among us” held by the professor Massimo Inguscio, full professor of Matter Physics atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and president of the CNR, who spoke about the challenges posed to science by quantum mechanics in the fields of medicine, energy, the environment and precision agriculture. “It is essential that science and technology are always at the service of man – recalled the professor Inguscio who in his lecture wanted to emphasize how much "future and progress derive from the imagination and multidisciplinarity of Science, from that knowing how to browse the windows of others that inspired Vito Volterra, founder of the National Research Council. The same idea of ​​“thinking brain” – he continued Inguscio - it pushes us to imagine and build computers, brains if you like, ever more complex”.

In the words of the Magnificent Rector Raffaele Calabrò and the President Felice Barela it was then the story of a young and growing university in terms of numbers and prospects, with its eleven degree courses and the recent activation of the Third Departmental Faculty of Sciences and Technologies for Man and the Environment together with the course in “Medicine and Surgery” in English. Challenges that theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma has decided to collect and relaunch in its strategic lines, as underlined by the president of the University, Felice Barela"Our university has recently completed the turning point of its first 25 years and has begun a new stretch of navigation, in which it wishes to be able to offer society an even broader and more significant contribution, thanks to the maturity achieved in recent years. We are in a phase of development: more spaces, more students, more teachers. It – he continued Barela - it follows the centuries-old tradition of the university institution, with humility but at the same time with the noble ambition to collect its legacy, which includes the love of knowledge, the spirit of collaboration, which knows no barriers or frontiers, service to man and the concern to contribute to the common good: values ​​that descend directly from the best European tradition and from its Christian roots”.

Even the Rector of the university Raffaele Calabrò he reiterated the inspiring principles of the academy born on the impulse of Blessed àlvaro del Portillo, defining the Bio-Medico Campus of Rome the university of "taking care": "Taking care" of the sick, of the student in his university, professional, cultural and human training, but with a clear international horizon, of the environment, of society through high-impact scientific research; of the territory with the activation of the Emergency Department" and remembering the commitment to one "global training", which aims to transmit human, social and anthropological skills, also through teachings of philosophy, ethics and bioethics in all the Degree Courses, in order to be able to open up to the territory and to the demands of civil society". Values ​​reflected by scientific results which, according to the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR) in its latest evaluation they place the Biological Sciences Area ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in 2nd place among all Italian universities, the University of Chemical Sciences in 4th place, the University of Industrial and Information Engineering in 4th place and the University of Medical Sciences.

During the morning, President Mattarella, accompanied by the President of Ucbm Felice Barela e by the Rector of the University Raffaele Calabrò, visited the research laboratories of the Electronics for Sensory Systems and Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems units, meeting professors and researchers who illustrated to the Head of State some of the main projects in progress, from 3D cell culture models for tissue development to the results achieved in the field of medical robotics with bionic limbs. The President of the Republic had the opportunity to meet a patient with a shoulder amputation who underwent a futuristic surgery, for which an experimental prosthesis was created with a connection between the nervous system and the bionic arm, with the aim of giving back to people subjected to an amputation, social and work reintegration. Another great challenge of our time in which theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma is the protagonist.