UCBM first academic stage of the new Aifa president

A complete visit, which allowed the President of AIFA to discover closely the integrated system of assistance, research and teaching implemented at theUCBM. Research is also one of the central points of Melazzini's mandate: "Biomedical research, together with industrial research - he said - constitutes a driving force for the country system capable of creating an enormous return from the point of view of value".

Melazzini visited the Advanced Research Center in Biomedicine and Bioengineering

23 March, 2016 - It had as its goal theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma the first visit of the new president of AIFA, the Italian Medicines Agency, to an Italian university. The President welcomed him on Tuesday 22 March UCBM Felice Barela, the Rector Andrea Onetti Muda, the general director Paolo Sormani and the General Director of the University Hospital Gianluca Oricchio.

Very recent - it dates back to December 2015 - the appointment of Mario Melazzini by the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, to lead AIFA. Transversal skills are those of the doctor, specialist in general hematology and researcher in the onco-haematological field, who in 2003 was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS. His long experience as a doctor and patient has led him to hold, among others, the position of elected councilor and councilor for production activities, research and innovation of the Lombardy Region. Hence the call from Minister Lorenzin, at the end of last year, with the consequent renunciation of regional office for an even more demanding mandate.

Accompanied by top management UCBM, Melazzini first of all met the patients and staff of the University Hospital, visiting the Anesthesia and Intensive Care department, the Hematology department and finally the oncology day-hospital. LThe delegation then moved to the Advanced Research Center in Biomedicine and Bioengineering (Prabb), to visit the Bioengineering, Tissue Engineering and Pharmacology Laboratories. Here, the Vice-Rector for Research, prof. Eugenio Guglielmelli, and the Research Coordinator of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine, prof. Giorgio Minotti, illustrated the ongoing research projects: from the bionic hand to the study of chip for the cultivation of cells to be used for preclinical experimentation.