In the pipeline Nuclear Medicine, Genetic Laboratory and DEA in 2020
28th November 2018 - L'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma has officially concluded the celebrations for its first quarter of a century, opening its 26th Academic Year today. A well-attended ceremony during which Paolo Dario, full professor of the Sant'Anna School of Pisa, was awarded the first honorary degree of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma “for his scientific contribution to the development of bioengineering which has opened new frontiers of technological innovation for the promotion of health and quality of life of the person through the use of robotics in medicine”.
The Degree in Biomedical Engineering, awarded by the magnificent rector Raffaele Calabrò, rewards a long and complex scientific path, from the first beginnings in bioengineering to the transition to biomedical robotics and the birth of biorobotics, and to the most recent developments in integration with sectors such as bionics. All subjects on which theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma is highly active and which have led Paolo Dario to have a vast and highly relevant scientific presence at an international level.
“The first honorary degree conferred by our university on Professor Paolo Dario is a way to solemnly conclude the first twenty-five years of life of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma - said the Rector Raffaele Calabrò. Professor Dario is the most eminent Italian scientist in the field of Biorobotics, a sector that has seen us as protagonists in recent years and in which we are continuing to invest. His figure is very dear to us since our Faculties of Medicine and Engineering have always collaborated closely in teaching, research and in applying the results to the health and life of the person. This is in fact a characteristic of our university - concluded Calabrò - which wants to combine knowledge to make the university the place where innovation becomes a tool at the service of the most fragile people".
A method with a particular vocation to decline scientific knowledge and knowledge for the benefit of people which in recent years has brought theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma to achieve important results in the sectors of rehabilitation, the robotic hand and research on important diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and which is making the University grow in the direction of increasingly integrated and international training. In this sense the Vice Rector for ResearchUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Eugenio Guglielmelli, underlined the value of Paolo Dario's presence: “A pioneer of biomedical engineering in Italy and in the world - he recalled William - internationally recognized as a scientist who has succeeded not only in demonstrating the utility of robotics to increase understanding of the functioning of biological systems starting from the human body, but also in translating this knowledge into applications of robotics in all areas of medicine , from diagnostics to surgery to rehabilitation”.
But there are many innovations announced during the inauguration, from the new Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery taught in English and the Master's Degree in Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management to the expansion of spaces and services. During the ceremony they were delivered by Director General of the University Andrea Rossi 21 scholarships and special prizes to the most deserving students, donated by the University and Intesa Sanpaolo, Foundation Cattolica Assicurazioni and Banca Popolare di Sondrio.
From February 2019 work on for the DEA
In their welcome addresses, the top management of the University underlined the importance of 'networking' with the territory, with the institutions and international, Italian and regional production realities. The President UCBM, Felice Barela, announced in this sense that "in February the work of the DEA (Emergency and Acceptance Department, ed), will start, which will end by the end of 2019, to open in early 2020. This is a very important step" , he stressed.
Laboratory of Genetics, Nuclear Medicine and modernization of Polo Longoni is under construction
Among other projects in the pipeline, or already partially completed, within the scope of the activities of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Barela he also recalled “the Nuclear Medicine department, fundamental for clinical activity”, “the Genetics Laboratory, essential for up-to-date medicine”, together with the activation of a “new hospital information system to replace the current SIO at the beginning of April 2019 and also a new Policlinico website from the end of January 2019, with the possibility of online booking”, available starting next May to simplify access to services.
Innovations to which will also be added the restructuring and modernization of the Oncology Radiotherapy Center in via Longoni, in the Prenestino district, "with the replacement of the old linear accelerators with brand new equipment and with the introduction of hyperthermia, to offer a high quality service quality in a very populous sector of the city of Rome" and capable of attracting people in need of ultra-specialist care also from other regions and from abroad, specified the President ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
The Course in Medicine and Surgery in English is starting
The Rector therefore anticipated the launch of "a single-cycle Master's Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery taught in English with a strong component of innovation in the teaching methodology", to strengthen internationalization, and the launch "from next year of a new Master's Degree Course in 'Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management' with the aim of enhancing the Study Course in Food Science and Human Nutrition, in view of a possible activation of a Third Departmental Faculty dedicated to 'Science and Technology'”.
Both the President and the Rector also spoke about the launch of the 'Together in Care' project, which will be implemented in collaboration with the Alberto Sordi Foundation and Campus Bio-Medico SpA "to give value and dignity – he explained Barela – to the fragility of the elderly”. The initial piece will be represented by a Hospice “which will be the first element of a larger project – added Calabrò – which intends to give a contribution to the theme of chronicity and the growing population of elderly people”.
For his part, the regional health councilor Alessio D'Amato recalled that “the Campus Bio-Medico, the youngest university in our region, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Today we are living in a new phase and we have to go back to investing in the country's main infrastructure which is called the National Health Service. We must go back to investing in knowledge and in life sciences as a development engine for our country".
At the opening of the day, the Regional Vicar of Opus Dei for Italy, Fr Normann Insam, recalling the opening mass of the first academic year of the University, underlined the founding spirit and values with an eye to the future: "this dream, that has already become reality, must continue to remain a dream, that is, something I see expanding, but not forgetting that what has made the Campus great and beautiful is also the climate, the environment and mutual relationships".
