The experiment involving the collaboration of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and the Italian Auxological Institute of Milan, thanks to the support of the "'Nicola Irti' Foundation for works of charity and culture"
June 27, 2019 - A new frontier in research against Amyotrific Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This is how it was presented today, in the Aula Magna Trapezio of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, the experiment that uses electroceuticals bringing it directly to the patient's home with the aim of slowing down the disease. The project, lasting six months, will be developed in collaboration withUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and by the Italian Auxological Institute IRCCS of Milan, thanks to the support of the "'Nicola Irti' Foundation for works of charity and culture".
To illustrate the study, there were this morning the teacher Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, director of the complex operating unit of Neurology of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital of Rome, and the teacher Vincenzo Silan, director of the Neurology unit and of the Neuroscience research laboratory of the Italian Auxological Institute.
"Today - explains the professor Di Lazzaro - we finally have a stimulation method available that patients can easily use at home every day. Our hope is that prolonged transcranial brain stimulation may be more effective in reducing the progression of ALS, for which there is currently no cure."
“What we want to do is revolutionary,” adds Professor Silani. “This is a good time for ALS research. The approach we propose is innovative and unique”.
The president of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Felice Barela, together with the rector of the University, the teacher Raffaele Calabrò, the president of the Italian Auxological Institute, Michael Colasanto, and the president of the "'Nicola Irti' foundation for works of charity and culture", Natalino Irti.
“I find – he commented Barela – that this project is in keeping with the motto of our university, “science for man”, that is, not only to advance science but to pursue a real spirit of service and help for others”.
