A LONG LIFE
Bologna Medicina – il Festival della Scienza Medica is the result of opportunity meeting demand, actually many demands – not the least of which were location and subject matter.
It was undoubtedly apt, for starters, that a discourse on the subject of medicine, one that looked to public involvement and debate on the subject, be located at the seat of the very first modern medical school. Ambling through Bologna’s medieval neighbourhood is all about promenading along the porticoes and arcades of this beautiful town, and taking in the fact that so very many of the buildings one walks past make reference to, or are named after, all matters medicinal, tracing as it were the evolution of medical knowledge. And so we have the inner courtyard of the Archiginnasio building, for instance, and the conference hall of the Società Medica Chirurgica that it houses, then there is the Sant’Orsola Hospital, the grim sounding Portico della Morte (the arcade of death), and the former Anatomy Wax Museum (now the Anatomy and Pathological Histology Museum). The list goes on, for the urban foundations of the town are steeped in the study of medicine.
The second requirement, the choice of subject matter, came about after various considerations. The issue of social security having maybe, or at least hopefully, run its course in public debate, it was thought that the next pressing question to affect us all would include queries on: how is society to deal with the growing demand for well-being, health and cures, both at present and in the foreseeable future, when the age of its elderly population continues to rise? What kind of answers can be put forward by economics, by politics and finance, and by the day-to-day running of health institutions? What is the cost of providing access to new therapies and treatments?
As a result, the theme of this first series of events bears the title “A Long Life”. And all that that entails: a sense of achievement, the breadth and wealth of opportunity, yes, but also the taking on of a heavy social responsibility.
In putting together this programme, we made a point of covering the many demands, challenges and the future developments of cutting-edge scientific research. These include: regenerative medicine, the dream of achieving immunity from and control over cancer, pain-control medicine and placebos, organ transplants, new imaging technology, long distance communication and telemedicine. The list continues with: the new frontiers of biotechnology, artificial insemination, nutraceuticals, and the very recent geroscience. Even a brief look at our calendar of events will reveal the calibre of the speakers and researchers who accepted our invitation to participate, including four Nobel-prize winners for medicine, and this can only augur well and make for an excellent start.
“A Long Life” as a theme furthermore acts as a portmanteau for the exploration of more consolidated perspectives such as: custom-tailored medicine, medicine-based narrative, pointers arising from fantasy novels, the concerns of legal medicine, anthropology, the evolutionary perspective on ageing, and the ethics of handling brain death (Finis vitae). It is a theme that is well equipped to tackle current controversial issues, such as vaccination, or to come forward with new perspectives in the field of gender medicine: when it comes to depression and osteoporosis, for instance, how are men and women differently influenced?
Another important demand we wanted to satisfy was to look at medicine through the role it has played in religious beliefs, history, epistemology, legal systems, literature, plays and films … culture, in other words. Hence a look at the plague contemplated by Boccaccio, on top of the more ancient ones, Ebola, the birth of syphilis, Spanish flu, the evolutionary heuristic transition from belief in demons to belief in genes; the meeting of, and reciprocal influencing between, epistemological research and clinical investigation, and the conflict between hospital and court in defensive medicine. And, also, the overview comparing and contrasting medical systems in major religions.
It was important to include attractions for the younger generations too. Primary-school aged children will be taken for a guided visit to the Theatre of Anatomy with age appropriate lessons on human anatomy. Older pupils will get to play a history themed game at school called ‘Pandemic’, a board game akin to Risk or Monopoly, which was specifically thought out so as to provide an exciting learning experience. And the senior pupils will get a chance to attend a staged hospital visit at the Palazzo Re Enzo, as they follow the Head Physician’s traditional ward inspection with actors playing the part of patients in real hospital beds, enacting old and new sicknesses. All of the above is certain to deliver an exciting bio-medical dictionary of key themes.
Palazzo Re Enzo will also be home to a ‘Social Box’ which is there to invite anyone who cares to contribute linguistic inventions and co-create with us a playful shared context in search of new made-up ‘illnesses’ – a game that is hoped to be picked up on by social networks.
There will be three exhibitions: a selection from ‘The Burns Archive’, which was consulted during the making of the American TV series ‘The Knick’, in the Archiginnasio courtyard; ‘Curare e Guarire’ (Curing and Healing) in the Sala degli Atti of Palazzo Re Enzo; and the Wax Museum and new Settoria Hall at the Institute of Anatomy. During the Festival you will also be able to visit the Palazzo Poggi museum and the halls of Santa Maria della Vita and San Colombano, all open for the occasion.
It was fitting that real patients also be catered to in the programme and Bologna Medicina will be present and active within the waiting rooms of the Ospedale Maggiore, the Sant’Orsola, the Rizzoli, the Bellaria, and the Seragnoli Hospice. Various chamber concerts will be held and readings from Italian literature will be staged for the audiences of long-term patients, children, their families and the care-giving personnel.
The public will also be offered live shows in the evenings centred around the literature of well known doctor-writers such as Čechov, Cronin, Bulgakov, Céline, and Sacks. Italian actor Massimo Popolizio will recite selected texts. The role of doctors in literature and drama will be documented and Bologna’s Cineteca will showcase a video mashup drawn from great movies on the subject.
A concluding ‘book-ending day’ will be held on 26 May to weigh up the results and the public will be welcome to attend a debate around the theme ‘How to Multiply the Code of Life’ with key speaker and 1993 Nobel-Prize winner for Chemistry Kary Mullis.
This event-rich programme seeks not only to actively involve the town by inviting the public to attend the many attractions but to do so using the town itself — its arcades, the hospitals, its institutions – as a non-negotiable backdrop and meeting ground with which to spark off interest, conversation and debate.
See you in Bologna, then, to discuss our health and our future.
Gilberto Corbellini and Pino Donghi
FESTIVAL DELLA SCIENZA MEDICA
IN BOLOGNA
“Underneath the Arcades of Knowledge”
BOLOGNA, 7-10 MAY 2015
Not long after the first millennium, and within the context of a close-knit community whose vitality is evident even today, Bologna brought forth a remarkably active cultural, scientific and artistic output. The physical layout of the town, with its many many arcades, was unparalleled and gave rise to an unstoppable source of vigour and growth. It was here that a unique climate was able to flourish, one in which the pursuit of learning, the exchange of knowledge and opinions, and innovation developed and put its stamp on the town’s second millennium.
The birth of a modern medical school put the science of medicine, following as it did on the town’s pursuit of law and notaryship studies, at the very centre of what we can call a ‘spatial’ platform. Shot through with history though it is, this platform nevertheless does lend itself to currentness and eagerly invites innovation. It can and does indeed acknowledge both the joint work of brilliant minds of the past and the urban environment that connected their work, defined by the pulsing arteries of the town’s arcades.
The lively medieval city centre of Bologna will provide the backdrop, the urban context, for the first Festival della Scienza Medica (Festival of Medical Science), from 7 to 10 May, with a concluding follow-up day on 26 May.
Our aim has been to conceive and set up not only a series of events but also to map them out along a well thought out cultural route which will be physically scattered about the town centre. This way, the charted paths and stops should make for a better and more interesting understanding of the city’s artistic, cultural and scientific clout and of the undisputed influence it wielded both at home and abroad.
The series of events are of merit in and of themselves but our main purpose was to set up a unifying timeframe, one that can express an original way to bolster people’s appreciation for the culture of Bologna just as much as for Bologna itself. We did not wish to furnish a quaint ‘antiquey’ approach to the town but, rather, looked to retrieving a wide-spectrum field of knowledge in which history has played a star role – specifically the history of medicine and the current significance of state-of-the-art medicine.
Many are the institutions that can be called upon to build on this idea, starting from the universities and academies and colleges all the way to civic and non-civic museums, the Carisbo Foundation, the Genus Bononiae Foundation, and the town hall itself. But called upon they should be in order to consolidate this idea and develop it both within the town and beyond it. Drawing upon various historical events and facts-and-figures that are tied to the town’s cultural, scientific and artistic make-up (some better known than others) would be a good way to boost interest in the tourist sector, a good way to attract a high-level tourist experience that, over and beyond the classic Rome-Florence-Venice tour, might now aim for Bologna as a prime destination offering an unexpected variety and richness of experiences.
By connecting the historical buildings and sites in a charted network that is reflective of their particular function (scientific and museum), we are looking to create a cultural climate that can work on an annual basis, one that can express a particular and diverse annual ‘Bologna Season’ under its arcades.
We are thus looking to working on the town itself, working on its sites and locations: a palazzo here, a hall there, Bologna’s historical buildings and, naturally, its arcades. The arcades in particular are to be understood not just as places for pleasurable promenading or for use to get from one place to another but as ‘spaces’ that invite the forging of relationships, the exchange of facial expressions and conversation, meeting points, and halls of learning. All of this invites a peculiar kind of narration of the many stories that go into the making of history – in our case, the stories and perspectives of medical science.
There can be no culture in the absence of remembrance and culture is, moreover, about the sense of the passing of time. The same goes for medical science, it needs the presence and a firm grasp of history if it is to achieve a deeper understanding and go forward. It is by understanding its own history that this body of knowledge can develop the kind of awareness which cannot be delegated, nor should it be entrusted, to the otherwise necessary input of digital instruments.
The wide variety and availability of venues, each one selected according to its suitability for any given performance, lecture or other specific requirement, has been a great benefit. It is indeed fitting that the town’s settings, the town’s ‘urban script’ as it were, are to serve as the backcloth for all the lectures, the telling of true stories, the performances, and medical research presentations.
Bologna can take centre stage as the natural setting for the discussion of the future of medical science, by recalling what occurred there from the XIV century onwards and how it was tightly connected to the development of its society, of the métiers and crafts as well as its industry.
And then we can get to talking about today and the scenario of a longer life, a long life that could only be wished upon until our recent past and which is now almost ‘demanded’ by society. A society that might be at odds with having to keep up with the fast pace of cutting-edge scientific discoveries in medicine on the one hand, and, on the other, may risk losing sight of principles and contexts that are fundamental for the progress of humanity.
Fabio Roversi Monaco
President of Genus Bononiae. Musei nella Città
Three lectures to make you travel through the great epidemics of the past, from Boccaccio’s plague, to Syphilis, to the tragedy of the Spanish flu that caused more deaths than the First World War. But how can we fight epidemics? Following, we will play PANDEMIC, a cooperative board game like Monopoli and Risiko, invented in 2008, which helps one understand how diseases prevail if the vaccine’s development and the infection’s containment fail to work together. Learning as you play.
11 a.m.: HOSPITAL ROUNDS
Three beds, three patients, the same disease but different diagnosis and therapies in different historical periods. A format halfway between a lecture and a play: the audience will follow the head “physician” – like in the hospitals during morning rounds – who questions patients/students acting their own medical record. The head physician leads the audience and tells about the progress of medicine. A voyage that starts in the past and ends up in the present through an aisle of old and new patients.
NARRATIONS
Narrative medicine leads to focus again on the patient’s figure, listening to his own experience and individual history as a tool to improve the diagnostic itinerary. A format that retraces patient stories and considers the several points of view that must be evaluated: from History to Anthropology, to Literature, to Forensic Medicine, to new technologies, to the difficult relationships between scientific research and business.
POINT OF ORDER
A series of conferences concerning the complicated matters regarding the resources management, the research costs and the access to health care, the price of innovation, the government spending. A challenge for politics with a capital P.
FOCUS
An in-depth analysis on current events: vaccines, personalized medicine, sleep diseases, doctor-patient relationship, cognitive exercise and the slowing-down of ageing.
RELIGION AND THERAPY
Prayer, in the four corners of the world, has always been considered as the best therapeutic answer, the medicine for everything and for everyone: also today and for every disease. A four-episode journey through the relationship between religions and therapies.
MEDICAL DICTIONARY
We intuitively believe to know the exact meaning of some words. But what is the actual meaning of “clinical experimentation”? What is the “placebo effect”, and what are we talking about when we talk about “pain”? A pocket dictionary in the form of lectures.
MEDICINE IN PROGRESS
Like every other science, medicine is in a continuous and positive evolution, since yesterday’s discoveries are the building blocks for acquiring tomorrow’s future knowledge. The lectures offer overall insights on some of the most recent developments in bio-medical research – but also on the increasingly related disciplines, like information technology and telecommunications – foreshadowing the forthcoming future of medicine and the future relationship between doctor and patient.
MALE/FEMALE
Gender medicine is one of the new great challenges for the profession, for patients, for society. Diagnosis and therapies cannot remain indifferent to age, ethnic groups, and gender. In this first edition, we shall focus on gender differences: male vs female, from a general point of view and in more specific cases and pathologies such as “depression” and “osteoporosis”.
DISEASES
The history of the great diseases, from the past to the present times, similarities and overlapping disciplines: the relationship between diagnosis and investigative approach.
LUNCH IS READY!
Nutraceutical is one of the new and very important dimensions of the relationship between health, disease, wellbeing and prevention. A set of conferences to make a point of what we know, what we can look after, what we can prevent and what we can expect to see in the plate…of the future!
EX CATHEDRA
The keynotes lectures, dedicated to the great clinicians and scholars, following the tradition of the Alma Mater and of the first modern School of Medicine in the history of the University.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Book presentations in San Giorgio in Poggiale.
EXHIBITIONS
During the Festival, an exhibition of “The Burns Archive” – in the Archiginnasio courtyard-, and the exhibition “Curare e guarire” – in the Atti hall of Re Enzo’s palace – will accompany the opening of San Colombano, of the Museum of Palazzo Poggi and of the Church of Santa Maria della Vita.
MEDICINE IN LITERATURE AND THEATRE
The figure of the doctor, the pain of disease, the patients’ fears and hopes revisited and reinterpreted in the pages of great Literature, opera scores and film.
CARRIED OUT BY…
A series of meeting promoted and organized by Institutes, Companies and Organizations.
Diego Ardigò is MD PhD Project Leader, Corporate Drug Development, R&D at Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.
Eugenio Aringhieri
Eugenio Aringhieri is the President of the Biotech Group of Farmindustria, and CEO of the Dompè Group.
Arnaldo Benini
Arnaldo Benini is Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Zurich. His latest publications include Che cosa sono io Il cervello alla ricerca di sé stesso (Garzanti 2009); La coscienza imperfetta. Le neuroscienze e il significato della vita (Garzanti 2012); with Giorgio Vallortigara Cervelli divisi Solo gli esseri umani contano da sinistra a destra? (Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio 2014). Translation of Paul Thagard’s book, Il cervello e il senso della vita (Mondadori 2014). He collaborates with the cultural Sunday supplement of the newspaper Il Sole24Ore.
Michele Baccarani
Michele Baccarani is the Coordinator of the CML Working Party of GIMEMA since 1989. His research focuses on acute leukaemia, chronical myeloid leukaemia, malignant lymphomas, cellular kinetics, chemotherapy, resistance to antineoplastic drugs, bone marrow transplant. He wrote over 600 scientific publications on international peer-reviewed magazines.
Giuseppe Battelli
Giuseppe Battelli teaches Contemporary History and History of the International Relationships at the University of Trieste, where he was Department Director and Faculty Head. His most recent works include Società, Stato e Chiesa in Italia. Dal tardo Settecento a oggi (Rome 2013), and Parole e violenza politica. Gli anni Settanta in Italia (Rome 2013). He dedicated issues to the History of Bologna, like Lercaro, Dossetti, la pace e il Vietnam: “1°gennaio 1968”, and Una «guerra fredda» nel cuore dell’Italia centrista. La Bologna del cardinale Lercaro e del PCI che governa la città (1952-1956).
Franco Bazzoli
Franco Bazzoli is Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Bologna, and Director of the Operative Unit of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy at the general hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi of Bologna since 2010; he is also Director of the Digestive System Department of the same Institute since 2014. He is honorary member of the European Helicobacter Pylori Study Group since 2012.
Fabrizio Benedetti
Fabrizio Benedetti is Professor of Physiology at the University of Turin; he is a member of the Academy of Europe and Consultant at Harvard University. His book Placebo Effects (Oxford 2008) won the prize of the British Medical Association.
Lucia Bevilacqua
Lucia Bevilacqua is Medical Doctor, Head Physician at the Hospital Ca Granda Niguarda (Milan), where she was Director of the Struttura Complessa Qualità e Sicurezza Clinica. Now she is Health Responsible of the Start up IoCA, Innovation of Care.
Luigi Bolondi
Luigi Bolondi is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Bologna, and President of the School of Medicine and Surgery at the same University; he is also the Director of the Operative Unit of Internal Medicine of the general hospital S. Orsola of Bologna. He published six monographs about hepatology and imagery diagnostics. He published 319 articles in international magazines reviewed by Science Citation Index.
Claudio Borghi
Claudio Borghi is Professor of Medicine at the University of Bologna since 2005, and Director of the Medicine Operative Unit of the general hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi of Bologna; he is also Director of the Specialisation School of Respiratory Apparatus Diseases, and President of the Società Medica-Chirurgica of Bologna.
Maria Luisa Brandi
Maria Luisa Brandi is Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism Diseases at the University of Florence. She is the Responsible of the Regional Reference Centre on endocrine tumours and of the Operative Unit of Mineral and Bones Metabolism at the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Careggi. She owns seven patents and she is Editor-in-Chief of the review Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism; she wrote over 700 publications.
Dario Bressanini
Dario Bressanini is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and High Technology of the University of Insubria (Como). He is holder of the section “Pentole e provette” on the review Le Scienze, concerning the scientific exploration of food. He published OGM tra leggende e realtà (Zanichelli), Pane e Bugie (Chiarelettere) and Le bugie nel carrello (Chiarelettere). He is the author of the popular blog “Scienza in Cucina”.
Elizabeth Burns
Elizabeth Burns is creative and operative director of ‘The Burns Archive’, and director of ‘The Burns Archive Press’. She organized several exhibitions about criminology, and also the exhibitions Spirit photography and African American history. She contributed to the production of several documentaries and films, and now she is the archivist of the tv-serie HBO – Cinemax “The Knick”.
Stanley B. Burns
Stanley B. Burns is an American Ophthalmologist and Medicine Historian. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Centre. In 1975 he started to collect medical pictures and two years later he inaugurated ‘The Burns Archive’. He was the author of several catalogues and curator of many exhibitions for some of the most important Museums of the world. He contributed to the production of several documentaries and films, and now he is the official historical consultant of the tv-serie HBO – Cinemax “The Knick”.
Saverio Campanini
Saverio Campanini teaches Hebrew at the University of Bologna (branch of Ravenna). His research focuses on History of Jewish mystique, its academic analysis and its reception in the Christian field, above all during the Renaissance. He is now dealing with the critical edition of some Jewish cabalistic texts.
Giorgio Cantelli Forti
Giorgio Cantelli Forti is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Bologna and he is the President of the Società Italiana di Farmacologia (SIF). He is author of 682 publications (250 works in extenso on Italian and foreign reviews, 39 book chapters, 53 act of conventions, 16 short communications and 324 communications at national and international conventions).
Mauro Capocci
Mauro Capocci is Assistan Professor of History of Medicine at the University La Sapienza of Rome. He collaborated with the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana “G. Treccani”, “Galileo” (www.galileonet.it) and “Sapere”. He published his own researches on several international reviews and in 2014 he edited, with Gilberto Corbellini, Le cellule della speranza (Codice Edizioni). He collaborates with “Le Scienze” and the “Ciclofficina Centrale di Roma” (www.ciclonauti.org).
Achille Patrizio Caputi
Achille Patrizio Caputi is the Director of the Operative Unit of Clinical Pharmacology at the Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino” of Messina, and he is the Responsible of the Centro Referente per la Segnalazione Spontanea delle sospette reazioni avverse da farmaci of Sicily. Since January 2015, he is the President of the Foundation Basilicata Ricerca Biomedica (BRB).
Maurizio Castorina
Maurizio Castorina is the CEO of the pharmaceutical company Zambon; he was a chief officer at Takeda in Italy since 2002 and he was Regional Vice President (RVP) for Southern Europe and Turkey.
Elena Cattaneo
Elena Cattaneo is Professor at the University of Milan, where she is Director of the Laboratorio di Biologia delle Cellule Staminali e Farmacologia delle Malattie Neurodegenerative – Department of Biosciences. She published over 150 manuscripts on peer-reviewed scientific magazines (like Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, JBC). She is Senator in order since 2013.
Mauro Ceruti
Mauro Ceruti is Professor of Science Philosophy and Director of the Department of classical, humanistic and geographical studies at the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione – Iulm. Some of his books, translated in many languages, are La nostra Europa (Raffaello Cortina) (with Edgar Morin); Il vincolo e la possibilità (Raffaello Cortina); La sfida della complessità (Bruno Mondadori) (with Gianluca Bocchi). His last book is La fine dell’onniscienza (Studium 2015).
Marco Ciardi
Marco Ciardi is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna. Some of his latest publications are Terra. Storia di un’idea (Laterza, 2013); Galileo e Harry Potter. La magia può aiutare la scienza? (Carocci, 2014).
Franco Citterio
Franco Citterio is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Rome, and Responsible of the Unit of liver transplantology at the Policlinico Gemelli of Rome; he is also President of the Società Italiana dei Trapianti d’Organo. He wrote over 200 publications.
Lucio Cocco
Lucio Cocco is Professor of Human Anatomy at the University of Chieti, and Professor of the same discipline at the University of Bologna since 1990. He is the Director of the Laboratorio di Trasduzione del Segnale at the Department of Biomedical sciences at the University of Bologna and he is Editor-in-Chief of the series Advances in Biological Regulation, Elsevier Publ.
Maria Conforti
Maria Conforti teaches Medicine at the University La Sapienza of Rome. Her research focuses on the Italian Medicine of Modern Age, analysed from the point of view of its communicative and practical aspects.
Fiorenzo Conti
Fiorenzo Conti is Professor of Human Physiology at the Università Politecnica of the Marche, and Director of the Centro di Neurobiologia dell’invecchiamento of the IRCCS INRCA (Ancona). His research focuses on the molecular organization of the cerebral cortex and its alterations in neuropsychiatric diseases. He is the President of the Società Italiana di Neuroscienze.
Gilberto Corbellini
Gilberto Corbellini teaches Bioethics and History of Medicine at the University La Sapienza of Rome, and he is the Director of the Museo di Storia della Medicina. He collaborates with the supplement Domenica of the Sole24Ore and he published ten books, like EBM. Medicina basata sull’evoluzione (Laterza 2007), La razionalità negata. Psichiatria e antipsichiatria in Italia (with G. Jervis, Bollati Boringhieri 2008), Perché gli scienziati non sono pericolosi (Longanesi 2009), Scienza, quindi democrazia (Einaudi 2011), Tutta colpa del cervello. Introduzione alla neuroetica (with E. Sirgiovanni, Mondadori 2013), Storia e teorie della salute e della malattia (Carocci 2014).
Giorgio Cosmacini
Giorgio Cosmacini is a doctor, graduated in Philosophy and he is also an independent teacher of Medical Radiology. He was Head Physician at the Istituto Scientifico Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (Milan), and he teaches Theory and History of Health at the University of Milan, and History of Medicine and History of Science at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan. Among his latest publications, can be quoted: Medicina e Rivoluzione (Cortina, 2015), La scomparsa del dottore (Cortina, 2013).
Lorenzo d’Avack
Lorenzo d’Avack is Professor of Law Philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the University Roma Tre. He is a lawyer since 1972 and Barristers of the Supreme Court since 1972. Among his latest publications can be quoted: Il progetto filiazione nell’era tecnologica. Percorsi etici e giuridici, Giappichelli (Turin, 2014) and Verso un antidestino. Biotecnologie e scelte di vita (Giappichelli, Turin, 2004).
Yves Dauvilliers
Yves Dauvilliers is Professor of Neurology and Physiology at the University of Montpellier and he is Director of the research activity of the Laboratory of research on sleep. He is Director of Sleep Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital of Montpellier; he is a member of the Clinical Research Department, University Hospital of Montpellier and a member of the Editorial Board of Sleep Medicine and Sleep. He wrote over 190 works published on national and international reviews.
Emilia Grazia de Biasi
Emilia Grazia de Biasi is senator since 2013, and she is President of the Commissione Igiene e Sanità of Palazzo Madama. Her research focused on many aspects concerning health, in particular the problem of the gambler diseases and experimentation on animals.
Giovanni De Girolamo
Giovanni De Girolamo is Scientific Director of the IRCCS of Brescia, and Professor of the School of Psychiatry at the University of Pisa. He is the Responsible of several welfare structures.
Michele De Luca
Michele De Luca is Professor of Biochemistry, Director of the Centro di Medicina Rigenerativa “Stefano Ferrari” and Director of the Centro Interdipartimentale Cellule Staminali e Medicina Rigenerativa of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He is also Scientific Director of the Società Holostem Terapie Avanzate Srl.
Roberto Defez
Roberto Defez is a Researcher of Microbial Biotechnologies at the IBBR of the CNR. He specialized at the Pasteur Institute (Paris). He has a blog about GMOs: salmone.org. He wrote Il Caso OGM (2014, Carocci Editore).
Simona Dei
Simona Dei graduated in Medicine and Surgery, and specialized in Neurological Sciences. She is General Director of the Local Health Centre of Siena. She has a wide hospital and territorial management training. She is author of over 11 publications since 2007.
Giuseppe di Pasquale
Giuseppe di Pasquale is Director of the Operative Unit of Cardiology at the Ospedale Maggiore of Bologna and Director of the Medical Department of the Bolognese Local Health Authority. He wrote over 442 scientific publications (155 on international reviews; he is the first author in 220 works) and 510 abstracts in acts of national and international conventions; he is co-editor of 4 books.
Dario Di Vico
Dario Di Vico is a journalist; he graduated in Sociology in Rome, and he works for the newspaper Corriere della Sera (where he was vice-director for five years) since 1989. His last book is Cacciavite, robot e tablet, concerning industrial politics.
Sergio Dompé
Sergio Dompé is President of the Pharmaceutic group Dompé. Since 2007 he is a member of the Council of the Fondazione IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia). Since 2014, he is a member of the Consiglio di Reggenza of the Banca d’Italia (Sede di Milano) and member of the Commissione Esperti Brevetti of CNR.
Pino Donghi
Pino Donghi is a Semiologist, and he deals with science communication and cultural organization. He was General Secretary at the Sigma Tau Foundation from 1994 to 2001, he curated 23 editions of Spoleto Scienza and he collaborated with Luca Ronconi for the set up of “Infinities” (Piccolo Teatro 2002-2003), and, as an author – with Gilberto Corbellini and Armando Massarenti – of “Bi(blio)etica” (Teatro Stabile di Torino 2006). He was the Editor of the Festival dell’Economia di Trento from 2010 to 2014, he collaborated with Laterza-Agorà. He is Professor on contract at the University of Bergamo, LUISS, SapienzaUniversità (Rome), and he is author of several essays (the last one entitled Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di cancro (Raffaello Cortina Editore, with Gianfranco Peluso). He is part of the Advisory Board of Bologna Medicina – Festival della Scienza Medica, where he is Editor too.
Gianluca Farinelli
Gianluca Farinelli is the President of the Cineteca of Bologna.
Andrew Fire
Andrew Fire won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2006, for the discovery of the RAN interference. Since 2003, he teaches at the Departments of Pathology and Genetics of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Claudio Franceschi
Claudio Franceschi was Professor of Immunology at the Universities of Padua, Modena and Bologna (1998-2003), and now he is Professore Alma Mater at the University of Bologna. He discovered the main characteristics of the immunosenescence and he studies the molecular and cellular bases of ageing and human longevity with researches on centenarians.
Flavia Franconi
Flavia Franconi is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Pharmacy of the University of Sassari. Since 2014 she is Health Councillor and vice-President of Basilicata.
Antonio Gasbarrini
Antonio Gasbarrini is Professor if Gastroenterology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Policlinico A.Gemelli (Rome) and Director of the Operative Unit of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Policlinico Gemelli of Rome. He has written over 1652 publications.
Sandro Giannini
Sandro Giannini is Professor of Human musculoskeletal system diseases at the University of Bologna, and he is the Director of the Specialisation Schools of Orthopaedics, Traumatology, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in the same Institute. He wrote over 450 publications, 20 monographs, 115 international essays and he owns four patents.
Rita Golfieri
Rita Golfieri is Director of the Operative Unit of Radiology at the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna, and Vice-Director of the Department of Diagnostics Medicine and Prevention of Bologna. She is Professor on contract since 1984 at many specialisation schools and she collaborates with many research projects in the field of interventionist radiology and advanced diagnostics in radiology. She is author and co-author of over 500 publications (14 monographs, 67 book chapters, 147 articles on international reviews).
Stefano Golinelli
Stefano Golinelli graduated with honour in 1970 in Electronic Engineering at the University of Bologna. He started to work for Alfa Wassermann (founded by his father in 1948) in 1975, where he had different, growing tasks. Since the beginning of the ’90s, he is a member of the Administrative Committee and CEO of this society. He is also a member of the Farmindustria Junta – pharmaceutical society’s group.
Andrea Grignolio
Andrea Grignolio deals with History of Medicine at the University of Bologna and at the University La Sapienza of Rome. He was guest of the Centre Cavaillès dell’Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science (Boston University) and Visiting Scholar at the Office for History of Science and Technology (University of California, Berkeley). He is author of articles appeared on national and international reviews and he is the editor (with F. De Sio) of the book Giuseppe Levi: scienza, vita e impegno civile (Medicina nei Secoli, 2012, Vol. 24, n. 2, 2013). He deals with scientific divulgation, collaborating with Radio3 and writing texts for the theatre (Marx a Roma; Il desiderio di conoscere. La storia di Barbara McClintock).
Antonio Guerci
Antonio Guerci graduated in Biological Sciences; he is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Museo di Etnomedicina A. Scarpa and holder of the chair UNESCO UniTwin Antropologia della salute – Biosfera e sistemi di cura at the University of Genoa.
Mario Guidi
Mario Guidi is an agrarian manager; he is married and has a daughter. In 2007 he became a member of the National Executive Joint. On March 31, 2011 he was elected National President of Confagricoltura. Since March 1, 2014 he is the Coordinator of Agrinsieme (which joins Confagricoltura,Cia and Alleanza delle Cooperative agroalimentari).
Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson is Professor of Cardiovascular Science at the British Heart Foundation and Director of the Institute of Developmental Sciences (University of Southampton). His most recent publications include Mismatch – the lifestyle diseases timebomb (2006), Principles of Evolutionary Medicine (2009), Fat, Fate and Disease (2012) and Nutrition and Lifestyle for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (2015).
John Harris
John Harris is the Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation and of the Wellcome Strategic Programme in The Human Body, its Scope Limits and Future at Manchester University, where he is also Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics. His new book, How to be Good, is set to be released in 2016.
Patrizia Hrelia
Patrizia Hrelia is Professor of Toxicology at the School of Pharmacy, Biotechnology and Sport Science of the University of Bologna. She has published over150 works in extenso on international magazines and book chapters, and she attended many national and international Conventions. She is an active member of many scientific societies. She is registered in the European (ERT) and Italian (RENTIC) register of Certified Toxicologists.
Silvana Hrelia
Silvana Hrelia teaches Biochemistry at the School of Pharmacy, Biotechnology and Sport Science of the University of Bologna. She wrote over 140 articles on international reviews concerning cellular biochemistry and nutrition. She is a member of the Key Thrust 1: “Improving health, well being and longevity” (European platform “Food for Life”).
Graziano Leuzzi
Graziano Leuzzi works for CISCO since 2000, where he deals with Healthcare market – in collaboration with the European team – and with the development of initiatives concerning Smart & Connected Communities. He attended as a speaker to many national Conventions. Walter Locatelli is General Director of the Local Health Unit of Milan.
Carlo Lucarelli
Carlo Lucarelli is one of the most famous writers of crime and noir novels. He worked on television for years and he anchored a program about the mysteries of the Italian History, Blu notte Misteri Italiani (Premio Flaiano, 2006). His latest works include Almost blue (1997), Un giorno dopo l’altro (2000), Storie di bande criminali, di mafie e di persone oneste (2008), Giudici (con Camilleri e De Cataldo, 2011), Il sogno divolare (2013), Albergo Italia (2014).
Donald MacGlashan Jr.
Donald MacGlashan Jr. is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1993, he entered in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology of the Department of Medicine. He is a member of the American Association of Immunologists and he was a member of the NIH Study Sections for Immunology, Cancer, Virology, Allergy and Immunology. He was a consultant for several Pharmaceutical and Biomedical factories and he is the author of over 170 publications, reviews and book chapters. He is the inventor of the Method and Kit for the Detection of Autoimmune Chronic Urticaria.
Lamberto Maffei
Lamberto Maffei is the President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and member of the following Academies: Accademia Europea di Scienze; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Among his latest publications, can be quoted La libertà di essere diversi (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011) and Elogio della lentezza (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014).
Peter Malfertheiner
Peter Malfertheiner is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-v.-Guericke-University of the University of Magdeburg.
Alberto Mantovani
Alberto Mantovani graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Oncology; he is the Scientific Director of the IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas and teaches at the Humanitas University. He received several national and international prices for his research activity. Since many years he is pointed out as one of the most quoted authors of the international scientific literature.
Valentina Mantua
Valentina Mantua (Rome, 1975) is a Psychiatrist and Ph.D. in Neurobiology. She follows the clinical development of drugs for the central nervous system at the Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA) and she is a member of the Scientific Advice Working Party (SAWP) and Central Nervous System Working Party (CNS-WP) of the Agenzia Europea per i Medicinali (EMA) in London.
Maurilio Marcacci
Maurilio Marcacci is Professor of Musculoskeletal system diseases at the University of Bologna and Director of the Scuola di Specializzazione in Ortopedia e Traumatologia of the same Institute. He is author of over 315 national and international works.
Gianvito Martino
Gianvito Martino is Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Queen Mary University of London and since 2008 he follows the Divisione di Neuroscienze of the Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele in Milan. He was President of the Associazione per la Cultura SINAPSI and he was one of the founders of BergamoScienza. He wrote over 200 scientific publications on international reviews (including original articles, books and book chapters).
Armando Massarenti
Armando Massarenti is an Italian Philosopher and Epistemologist. Since 2011, he is the responsible of the page “Scienza e filosofia” of the cultural Sunday supplement of the newspaper IlSole24Ore, where he holds the section “Filosofia minima” and where he deals, since 1986, with History, Science Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Politics and Applied Ethics. He is the Director, for the publishing house Mondadori, of the series “Scienza e filosofia”. He is author of several educational books, like the manual Penso dunque sono (with Emiliano Di Marco, D’Anna, 2014), Il filosofo tascabile (2009), Staminalia (2008), Perché pagare le tangenti è razionale ma non vi conviene (2012), Istruzioni per rendersi felici (2014).
Anna Meldolesi
Anna Meldolesi is a professional journalist, and she writes for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. She graduated in Biology at the University of Bologna, and she obtained the Master in Communication studies at the Sissa (Trieste). Her most important books include Ogm (Einaudi) e Mai nate (Mondadori Università).
Alberto Melloni
Alberto Melloni is Professor of History of Christianity at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia. He is holder of the Unesco chair about peace and religious pluralism at the University of Bologna since 2003 and he is the Director of the Bolognese Foundation for religious sciences John XXIII since 2007. He wrote about the medieval canon law, about Church and Politics in the 21th century and about ecclesiastical institutions.
Claudio Mencacci
Claudio Mencacci is Professor on contract at the University of Milan and at the University Milano Bicocca, and he is the Honorary President of the Coordinamento Nazionale dei Servizi Psichiatrici di Diagnosi e Cura. He is author of over 260 scientific publications and he is editor of more than 22 published volumes.
Gaetano Miccichè
Gaetano Miccichè is the General Director of the Advisory Board of Intesa Sanpaolo and the Responsible for the Corporate Division and Investment Banking. He is the vicar Vice-President of Banca Imi. Among his various tasks in the company (since 2002), can be remembered: Financial General Manager at Rodriquez S.p.A., General Manager at Gerolimich-Unione Manifatture; General Manager at Santa Valeria S.p.A., CEO and e General Manager at Olcese S.p.A. Now he is also Advisor at Prada S.p.A., Pirelli & C. SpA and ABi and he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Politecnico di Milano. He was elected Cavaliere del Lavoro by President Giorgio Napolitano on May 31, 2013.
Piero Mioli
Piero Mioli teaches at the Conservatory of Bologna, and he is member of Academies and editorial committees; he wrote several books, like Dizionario di musica classicaand he was the editor of others, like Sonata a tre. Verdi, Wagner e Bologna.
Sandro Modeo
Sandro Modeo is an Italian essays; he deals above all with science and football. He writes on the newspaper Corriere della Sera. He collaborated with the magazines La Rivista dei Libri, Le Scienze and Darwin.
Juri Monducci
Juri Monducci is a lawyer in Bologna and Milan, and Temporary Research Associate at the University of Bologna, in the field of health care, privacy issues and bioethics. He worked as Visiting Researcher at the Fordham Law School of New York, he has taught post-graduate courses; he wrote several articles and has participated as speaker at several national and international Conventions.
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008, for the discovery of the HIV virus. He is Professor at the Institute Pasteur of Paris and President of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention.
Michele Morgante
Michele Morgante is Professor of Genetics at the University of Udine. He was Editor in chief of Theoretical and Applied Genetics and of Tree Genetics and Genomes; he is Editor in chief of BMC Plant Biology and section editor of BMC Genetics. In 2007 he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali.
Franco Moscetti
Franco Moscetti started his career in the Group Air Liquide in 1973. In 1989, after various experiences, he was appointed General Director of Vitalaire Italia (specialized in home assistance). In 1995 he was elected General Director and CEO of Air Liquide Sanité, a sub-holding which is in charge of all the activities in the field of healthcare of said group in Italy. In 1999 he also became CEO of Air Liquide Italia. In 2001 he moved to Paris, where he became Director of the Divisione Ospedaliera and Président-Directeur Général of Air Liquide Santé France. As of December 2004 he became General Director and CEO of Amplifon Group. He also so a member of the Advisory Board of the “Comitato Leonardo” and of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy and “Amministratore indipendente” of S.p.A. and of Fideuram Investimenti SGR S.p.A. (Gruppo IntesaSanpaolo). In 2012 he was elected Cavaliere dell’Ordine “Al Merito del Lavoro” by President Giorgio Napolitano.
Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993, with Michael Smith, for the development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction. He is Distinguished Researcher at the Children’s Hospital and Research Institute of Oakland (California).
Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1991, with Bert Sakmann, for the invention of the patch clamp technique for the discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells. He is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry of Göttingen and Professor at the same Institute.
Maurice Ohayon
Maurice Ohayon is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine, and Director of the Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center (SSERC).
Antonio Panaino
Antonio Panaino is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Bologna. His research focuses on Linguistics and Iranian Philology, with a particular interest in the Avestan, Old-Persian and in the different Middle-Iranian languages. He also deals with the religious History of pre-Islamic Iran, with intercultural relationships between Byzantium and Iran, with the ancient and Oriental History and with pseudoscience. He wrote many monographs and over 200 academic articles.
Luca Pani
Luca Pani is General Director of the Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco (AIFA). Since 2010, he is the Italian Permanent Delegate (Alternate) of the Comitato per i Medicinali ad Uso Umano (CHMP) and Elected Member of the Gruppo di Lavoro sul Sistema Nervoso Centrale and of the Gruppo di Lavoro per la Consulenza Scientifica (SAWP) for the Agenzia Europea dei Medicinali (EMA). He is author of over a thousand scientific publications, editor and author of several volumes. Since 1994, he attended as a speaker to over 800 national and international conventions, seminaries and workshops.
Maria Grazia Pascucci
Maria Grazia Pascucci is a member of the Società Italiana di Igiene.
Carlo Patrono
Carlo Patrono is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, and Vice-President of the Ethics Committee of the Hospital “A. Gemelli” (Milan). In 2013 he received the Grand Prix Scientifique 2013 of the Institut de France. He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Susi Pelotti
Susi Pelotti teaches Forensic Medicine at the School of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Bologna (Faculty of Law). She is a Technical Consultant and an expert of the Judiciary Authority, and since January 2015 she is the President of the Genetisti Forensi Italiani (Ge.F.I).
Stefano Aldo Pileri
Stefano Aldo Pileri is Professore Alma Mater (PAM) of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Bologna and Director of the Unità di Diagnosi Emolinfopatologica at the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia (Milan). He wrote over 1063 publications. He dedicates his own research activity to the translational issues (from the laboratory to the patient’s bed) and to the personalized therapy in the field of lymphoma and leukemia.
Giancarlo Pizza
Giancarlo Pizza is the President of the Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e Odontoiatri of Bologna since 2006. From 1974, he acted full time in hospitals of the city of Bologna, at the general hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi, where he directed the Modulo di Immunoterapia dei tumori urologici; here, since August 2013, he works as a freelance professional for the direction of an experimental project concerning metastatic kidneys tumors.
Giuseppe Plazzi
Giuseppe Plazzi is Professor of Neurology at the University of Bologna, and he is the Director of a center for the research and the therapies of the sleep diseases at the same Institute. He is author and co-author of over 250 scientific works on international reviews, of several book chapters and of the first book published by an international publishing house about parasomnia.
Michael G. Plummer
Michael G. Plummer is Director Sais Europe, Eni Professor of International Economics. He is the President of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies (ACAES), Editor of the Journal of Asian Economics; he is non resident senior fellow at the East-West Center, and he was team leader at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He studied the economic community ASEAN and the development of the ASEAN regional bond market.
Massimo Popolizio
Massimo Popolizio collaborated for twenty years with Luca Ronconi, with whom he acted in about thirty shows (like Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanitàof Kraus (1990), Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (1995), Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana of Gadda (1996), until Leheman, still staged at the Piccolo Teatro). He also worked with many other Italian Directors, like Cesare Lievi, Massimo Castri, Walter Pagliaro, Mauro Avogadro, Gianfranco de Bosio, Antonio Calenda, Marco Sciaccaluga and Elio De Capitani, Jean Pierre Vincent. He won the Premio Olimpico with Ritter Dene Voss of Thomas Bernhard (Director: Piero Maccarinelli, 2007). The latest productions he appeared in include Blackbirdby David Harrower (Director Lluis Pasqual) and John Gabriel Borkman (directed by Piero Maccarinelli).
Eleonora Porcu
Eleonora Porcu is Associate Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the University of Bologna, and Responsible of the StrutturaSemplice di Infertilità e Procreazione Medicalmente Assistita at the general hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi of Bologna. She is author of 215 international publications and 179 national publications.
Ivo Quaranta
Ivo Quaranta is Associate Professor of Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology at the University of Bologna. His latest publications include Malati fuori luogo. Medicina interculturale (with Mario Ricca, Milano 2012); Antropologia Medica. I testi fondamentali (Milano 2006).
Claudio Rapezzi
Claudio Rapezzi is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Bologna. His main research concerns: clinic cardiology, cardiovascular physiopathology, diagnostics, electrocardiography, cardiac insufficiency and myocardium diseases. He is author of over 500 publications on national and international reviews, books and conventions acts.
Rino Rappuoli
Rino Rappuoli is Chief Scientist at GSK Vaccines. He wrote over 400 scientific original publications, and he was author of many books; he is also part of the Scientific Committee of important reviews and he is a member of several international Committees and Organizations, like the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
Walter Ricciardi
Walter Ricciardi is Professor of Hygiene and Director of the School of Specialization of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine and Surgery “A. Gemelli” (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome), and Director of the Department of Public Health of the University General Hospital “A. Gemelli” (quadriennium 2011/12 – 2014/15). Since May 2013, he is Member of the European Panel for the efficacy of the Health investments of the European Commission – DG Sanco and since July 2014 he is Extraordinary Commissioner of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS).
Francesco Ripa di Meana
Francesco Ripa di Meana is President FIASO (Federazione Italiana Aziende Sanitarie e Ospedaliere) and General Director of the Orthopaedics Institute Rizzoli (Bologna).
Nicola Rizzo
Nicola Rizzo is Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Director of the Obstetrics Clinic and Prenatal Medicine at the general hospital S. Orsola (Bologna), and he is Director of the Specialization School in Gynecology and Obstetrics and coordinator of the Ph.D. in Medical Science Research and of the Services Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna.
Francesca Romana Romani
Francesca Romana Romani is an Islamist and Medicine Historian, and she teaches at the University Roma Tre. She has a Ph.D. in Human Pathology, with a thesis about Islamic bioethics. She is author of scientific works about the History of hospitals in the Islamic Middle age, and about issues of multicultural bioethics, above all concerning the relationships between body sacredness and transplant surgery.
Carlo Rosa
Carlo Rosa graduated in 1990 in Chemistry summa cum laude at the University of Turin. In 1990, he worked in the USA (Health Research Institute) in a project for the development of an innovative product for the diagnosis of Hepatitis CV. In 1992, he became a member of the Incstar Corporation, an American Society where he had different tasks in the field of Research and Development, Strategic Marketing and where he became Director of the Business Unit on infectious diseases. He came back in Italy in 1998, where he became Director of European Strategy and Marketing at DiaSorin Spa. In 2001, he ruled a management buy-out with other four managers and a group of financial resources investors for the purchase of DiaSorin from a previous owner. American Standard Inc. Later he became COO until 2006, when he became CEO. In 2014, he was elected Vice President of Alisei, a Group of Italian public and private institutions with the task of promoting biological sciences development in Italy.
Amedeo Santosuosso
Amedeo Santosuosso is a Magistrate at the courthouse of Milan, and President of the Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale European Centre for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT) of the University of Pavia; he teaches Law, Science and New Technologies at the same Institute. He attended as a speaker to several national and international Conventions.
Massimo Scaccabarozzi
Massimo Scaccabarozzi is President of Farmindustria since June 2011 (position confirmed in 2013); since 2011 he is a member of the Joint and permanent guest of the Advisory Board of Confindustria, and since 2001 he works in Janssen Italia, where he was General Director and then CEO.
Giovanni Scapagnini
Giovanni Scapagnini is Professor at the Istituto di Scienze Neurologiche (CNR Catania) and at the University of Molise, and Professor at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, West Virginia University, Rockville (MD), USA; he is Professor on contract at the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, Baltimore (MD), USA. He is a neuroscientist doctor, expert in the biological mechanisms of ageing (above all the brain ones).
Mario Sensini
Mario Sensini (51 years old) is a professional journalist. Reporter, correspondent from Brussels for six years, he worked at the Group 24Ore, La Stampa and since 2003 he works at the Corriere della Sera, where he deals with Economy and Public Finance. He wrote the book L’Abc dell’Europaper (Nuova Eri).
Renato Seracchioli
Renato Seracchioli is Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Bologna, and since November 1, 2014 he is the Director of the Operative Unit of Gynecology and Reproduction Physiopathology at the general hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi of Bologna. He wrote over 160 publications, including 94 original scientific articles published on peer-reviewed magazines reviewed by MEDLINE (overall IF higher than 250).
Filippo Sgubbi
Filippo Sgubbi is Professor of Criminal Law and holder of the chair of Public Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna. He is also a criminal defense lawyer since 1978.
Raffaele Stefanelli
Raffaele Stefanelli is the CEO of the Boston Scientific Italia since July 2013. He has been in Boston Scientific since 1999, where he was Finance & Administration Manager, Finance Director and President of the Board of Directors. Since 1993, he is Finance & Administration Manager at World Minerals.
Sergio Stefoni
Sergio Stefoni is Professor of Nephrology at the University of Bologna; he was the Director of the Servizio di Nefrologia, Dialisi e Trapianto of the S. Orsola general hospital (Bologna), Department Head of the Medicine Faculty and President of the Società Internazionale degli Organi Artificiali. He is author of over 500 publications.
Luigi Stortoni
Luigi Stortoni is Full Professor of criminal law at the School of Law of the University of Bologna; he was the Director of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Giuridici at the same University and Department Head of the Associazione dei penalisti “F. Bricola”. He was a member of the governmental commissions for the reform penal code Nordio and Pisapia. He is author of several criminal law studies, like the monograph about “abuso di potere” and “concorso di persone nel reato”. He is a criminal defense lawyer.
Piergiorgio Strata
Piergiorgio Strata is Professor at the University of Turin. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, and he won the Premio Feltrinelli at the Accademia dei Lincei. He was a researcher at Canberra and Chicago with the Nobel Prize winner John Eccles.
Marco Trabucchi
Marco Trabucchi is Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is the Scientific Director of the Gruppo di Ricerca Geriatrica (GRG) of Brescia, responsible of the Sezione Politiche Sociali e Sanitarie at the Fondazione Smith Kline. He founded the IRCCS S. Giovanni di Dio of Brescia for the research on dementia. He is President of the Associazione Italiana di Psicogeriatria and used to be President of the Società Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the L’Arco di Giano for Neurosciences.
Roberto Tuberosa
Roberto Tuberosa teaches Vegetal Biotechnologies at the University of Bologna, where he adopts genomic methods to increase the resistance of wheat and corn to drought and fungal diseases.
Stanley Ulijaszek
Stanley Ulijaszek is Director of the Biocultural Variation and Obesity, and Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on nutrition and ageing from an evolutionist, biocultural and anthropological point of view.
Emanuele Vendramini
Emanuele Vendramini is Associate Professor of Business Economics at the University Sacro Cuore of Milan (branch of Piacenza); since November 2007 he is Adjunct Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) and since 2004 he is Faculty Harvard Business School Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness affiliate. Since 2004, he teaches at the Luigi Bocconi University (Milan).
Sergio Venturi
Sergio Venturi is Health Councillor of Regione Emilia Romagna.
Periluigi Viale
Periluigi Viale is Full Professor of Infective Diseases at the University of Bologna, and Director of the Operative Unit of Infective Diseases at the general hospital S. Orsola. He is an expert in the field of anti-microbial therapy, with reference to the hospital-acquired infections risk and to the immune-reactive patient.
Andrea Vitali
Andrea Vitali was born in 1956 in Bellano (Como), where he lives and works as a doctor. His publications include: La mamma del sole (2010), Il meccanico Landru (2010), La leggendadel morto contento (2011), Zia Antonia sapeva dimenta (2011), Galeotto fu il collier (2012), Regalodi nozze (2012). In 2008, he won the literary price Boccaccio for his opera omnia. In 2014, he published Premiata ditta sorelle Ficcadenti(Rizzoli), Quattro sberle benedette (Garzanti)Biglietto signorina(Garzanti). In 2015, he published La ruga del cretinoin collaboration with Massimo Picozzi Garzanti.
Francesco Zavattaro
Francesco Zavattaro is General Director of the Local Health Center of Lanciano Vasto Chieti.
Maurizio Zompatori
Maurizio Zompatori is Professor of Radiology at the University of Bologna, and Director of the Operative Unit of Radiology at the general hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi of Bologna. He is author and co-author of over 400 publications (281 with IF) – above all on pulmonary issues -, of various monographs and of several book chapters.
Alfredo Zuppiroli
Alfredo Zuppiroli was born in Florence in 1951. He has been a hospital cardiologist since 1979, head physician from 2000 to 2012 (when he retired). He is author of several scientific publications. He was President of the Commissione di Bioetica of Tuscany from 2008 to 2011. Since 2013, he collaborates with the Tuscany Agenzia di Sanità.
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(Via Nazario Sauro, 20/2)
The Art and History Library at San Giorgio in Poggiale, which was designed by architect Michele De Lucchi, hosts the vast collection of art and history books of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, as well as an important newspaper and periodicals library and a rich photographic archive. The reading room houses works by Claudio Parmiggiani – “Campo dei Fiori” and the last monumental “Delocazione” –, as well as Piero Pizzi Cannella’s Cattedrali cycle. Conferences and cultural events are also held at San Giorgio in Poggiale.
SANTA CRISTINA CHURCH
(Piazzetta Morandi, 2)
Inaugurated and opened to the public in 2007, the Church of Santa Cristina houses a rich art collection and sets out to become a privileged centre for music, each year running a calendar of unique musical events from October to May, each one performed by outstanding musicians. The Church is also home to the Schola Gregoriana Benedetto XVI, which aims to promote the knowledge and dissemination of Gregorian chant. The school is directed by the Olivetan monk, don Nicola Bellinazzo, who also teaches liturgy to promote the understanding and interpretation of Gregorian chant.
PALAZZO PEPOLI. MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF BOLOGNA
Sala della Cultura
(via Castiglione, 8)
The Heart of Genus Bononiae. Museums in the City, Palazzo Pepoli is a museum and cultural itinerary dedicated to the history, culture and transformations of Bologna, from the Etruscan “Felsina” to our times. The various ups and downs of the local community are narrated here in an innovative fashion using striking interactive display techniques that are largely unknown in our country. The splendid backdrop of the medieval building, reinvented, restored and set up by Mario Bellini, with the graphic design of the architect Italo Lupi, make a visit to the Museum a unique experience. The twelve female protagonists of the City History are a frame of the ancient dance hall of the Palace, today Sala della Cultura.
AULA MAGNA OF SANTA LUCIA
(via Castiglione, 36)
This is the Aula Magna of the University of Bologna; the origins of the church go back to the 5th century. The Jesuits enlarged and embellished it, making it their own seat since the 16th century, with the adjacent convent, and in the 18th century the building was reconstructed on the model of the Roman church of Jesus by the architect Girolamo Rainaldi. After the Napoleonic suppression, it was deconsecrated and devoted to different uses, until the restoration of 1998, which devoted it to the actual use. In the chapel dedicated to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, there is the altar projected by Alfonso Torreggiani, placed there in 1763. The elegant architectural structure exposes on the square (church’s parvise) and is strongly suggestive.
AULA ABSIDALE OF SANTA LUCIA
(via de’ Chiari, 25)
The Aula Absidale of the Santa Lucia complex was designed for different uses in the past, and it is part of the Bolognese University; it is the location dedicated to conventions and concerts. Its main nave has over 100 seats, while in the apsis there is a wide amphitheatre room. The Architect Roberto Scavannini oversaw the huge restoration of the complex, which was finished in 1998 and brought back the building to its ancient radiance.
MONUMENTAL COMPLEX OF SAN GIOVANNI IN MONTE
Giorgio Prodi Hall
(piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2)
In the heart of the monumental complex of San Giovanni in Monte, there is the prestigious “Giorgio Prodi” lecture hall, a place of amazing historic and artistic value. The place can host cultural and formative activities in a unique and elegant frame, in a place that in the past was the Lateral Canons’ refectory, on the backdrop of the marvellous 16th century fresco of Bartolomeo Cesi.
ARCHIGINNASIO PALACE
Anatomical Theatre
Stabat Mater lecture hall
Società Medica Chirurgica of Bologna lecture hall
(piazza Galvani, 1)
The monumental 16th century building of Archiginnasio is one of the most meaningful palaces of Bologna. It was built in only one year and half between 1562 and 1563, and in the pope’s intentions the “new schools’ building” or Archiginnasio had to join and dignify the several University schools of the city, to give importance to the Bolognese studies in the face of the competition with the new European University centres. The palace is irregularly built on the previous structures, and moves around a central courtyard with a double loculus order and is enriched with vaults, stairways, arcades and architectural elements of a great value. The two rooms that will host the events of the Festival of Medical Science are the two original lecture halls that were attributed to the Artists and to the Jurists.
PALAZZO RE ENZO
Podestà hall
Re Enzo hall
Atti hall
Quadrante hall
(piazza Nettuno, 1)
Palazzo Re Enzo was built in the 14th century immediately after the Palazzo del Podestà, and it was called originally New Palace to distinguish it from the latter; its function was new indeed, since it had to include the widespread representatives of the people. It became later the forced house of King Enzo of Sardinia, son of the Emperor Frederick II, who, captured during a war, was imprisoned there for 23 years, until his death. The Palazzo was rebuilt and restored several times, and it is one of the most important venues of the city. The crenelated profile of the building faces Nettuno Square and bears witness to the splendour of Bologna during the Middle Ages.
ISTITUTI ANATOMICI – Wax Museum “Luigi Cattaneo”
(via Irnerio, 48)
The normal and pathological human anatomy collection of the Museum shows the path followed by 18th and 19th centuries medical sciences scholars who, after having acquired all the knowledge about the real nature of the human body, would start to study its diseases.
The wax sculptures, natural and dried bones are an important material with valuable didactic purposes that completes the 18th century normal anatomy collection of the Palazzo Poggi Museums, representing thus a continuum in the medical research stranding out in Bologna between the 18th and the 19th centuries.
The articles listed here are a selection of the ones dedicated to the first edition of the Festival della Scienza Medica. For the complete index of the Press Review 2015, click here
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Il Corriere di Bologna, April 10th, 2015
La Repubblica Bologna, April 10th, 2015
Il Sole 24 Ore, April 12th, 2015
Unibo Magazine, April 16th, 2015
Il Venerdì di Repubblica, April 24th, 2015
Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica), May 3rd, 2015
Il Corriere di Bologna, May 5th, 2015
Il Corriere della Sera Eventi, May 5th, 2015
Il Resto del Carlino Bologna, May 5th, 2015
Il Corriere di Bologna, May 6th, 2015
Tst-Tutto Scienze e Tecnologia (La Stampa), May 6th, 2015
QN_Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno, May 7th, 2015
La Repubblica Bologna, May 7th, 2015
Il Corriere di Bologna, May 8th, 2015
La Repubblica Bologna, May 8th, 2015
Il Resto del Carlino Bologna, May 8th, 2015
adnkrnos, May 8th, 2015
Focus.it, May 8th, 2015
QN_Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno, May 9th, 2015
La Repubblica Bologna, May 9th, 2015
Il Corriere di Bologna, Cultura e Società, May 10th, 2015
adnkronos, May 10th, 2015
Il Resto del Carlino.it, May 10th, 2015
Il Resto del Carlino Bologna, May 11th, 2015
La Repubblica, May 12th, 2015
Il Corriere di Bologna, May 26th, 2015
La Repubblica, May 26th, 2015
Il Resto del Carlino Bologna, May 27th, 2015
La Repubblica, June 10th, 2015
Osservatorio Sanità e Salute, June 10th, 2015
The Festival della Scienza Medica thanks the Authors, Photographers and Editors of the articles listed here, and is available to present further information about them, as well as – if formally and promptly required – to remove the article.
RADIO and TV
TG3 EMILIA ROMAGNA, April 9th, 2 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
BUONGIORNO REGIONE
May 8th, 7 a.m.
Interviews with Luc Montagnier and Fabio Roversi Monaco
May 8th, 2 p.m., “top story”
May 8th, 7.30 p.m., “top story”
May 9th, 7.30 p.m.
May 10th, 7.30 p.m.
TG EMILIA ROMAGNA, May 26th, 7.30 p.m.
TRC – NETTUNO TV – RADIO BRUNO – April 9th, 7.30 p.m./8 p.m. newsletters
RADIO 24 MOEBIUS
1° passage at the beginning of April, “Videocondria”
2° passage at the half of April, “Visite in Corsia”
3° passage on Saturday, May 2nd (9-9.30 p.m.) with Massimo Cirri on “Videocondria”
4° passage about Gender Medicine, May 8th, in the morning
5° passage Pedrocchi at “Ambiente”, May 9th
TRIWU
Streaming of three talks of the Festival:
– “Gigantismo delle Aziende e bisogni del paziente: quali strumenti per quali scenari?”
– “Medicina di Genere”
– “1900: più grande della Grande Guerra… l’Influenza Spagnola”
7 GOLD
Interview with Pino Donghi and Luigi Bolondi
May 6th, 8 a.m. on 7 Gold (canale 13); 11.30 a.m. on Rete 8 (canale 86); 2 p.m. on Nuova Rete (canale 110) and again on Rete 8 at 1 a.m.
RADIOIN BLU
May 6th, 5.30 p.m. interview with Pino Donghi: presentation of the Festival
RADIO 3 SCIENZA
May 7th, 11.30 a.m.
Interview with Jonh Harris and Pino Donghi
RADIO 1 LIFE
May 7th, 12.30 o’clock
Interview with Pino Donghi
RADIO CITTA’ DEL CAPO
May 7th, 10.30 a.m. interview with Pino Donghi and presentation of the Festival
SAN MARINO TV
May 7th, 7 p.m.
Special “Pandemia”
RESTO DEL CARLINO canale video
May 7th
ASKANEWS
May 8th
RAI NEWS
May 8th two broadcasts about the Festival during the day
May 10th, 7 p.m.
Closing broadcast with an interview to Elena Cattaneo
TRC – RTV – NETTUNO
May 8th, 2 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
Broadcast about the Festival
CATERPILLAR DELL’8 maggio
BIOLOGICA TV
Broadcast about the Festival on Saturday, May 9th, with video recordings of the various conferences.
Interviews with: Rino Rappuoli, Fabrizio Benedetti, Marco Trabucchi, Stanley Ulijaszek, Claudio Mencacci, Eleonora Porcu, Fiorenzo Conti, Giuseppe Piazzi, Yves Dauvilliers, Maurice Ohayon
RADIO 3 SCIENZA
May 28th, 11.30 a.m.
From 11.30 a.m. to 12 o’clock
Interview with Kary Mullis and Pino Donghi