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Monday, November 30, 2009 |
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Roma
Teatro Studio - Auditorium Parco della Musica
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Begins at 11:00 |
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Prof. Enrico GARACI
Chairman of the National Institute of Health
Prof. Enrico ALLEVA
Chairman of the Italian Society of Ethology
The discussion is coordinated by:
Pino Donghi
General Secretary of the Fondazione Sigma-Tau |
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For information:
FONDAZIONE SIGMA-TAU
Viale Shakespeare, 47
00144 Roma
Tel. 06-59.26.443-4-5 06-59.26.600
Fax: 06-59.26.441 |
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"S & E: School and Excellence" |
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CHAIN, BOVET, MONTALCINI AND THE ISS SCHOOL |
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On November 30 there will take place the third meeting of the series "S & E - SCHOOL and EXCELLENCE: Schools of Science in XX-century Italy" (a project by Fondazione Sigma-Tau, in co-production with Fondazione Musica per Roma) in the Teatro Studio of the Auditorium Parco della Musica. Issued from an idea by Gilberto Corbellini, the series specifically addresses Rome high schools to have students know about traditions of scientific research shedding lustre on Italy.
This event will be attended by the Chairman of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (the italian Institute of Health), professor Enrico Garaci. He is going to tell the story and prospects of the Institute, starting from Ernst Chain, Daniel Bovet, through Rita Levi Montalcini herself, up to now. A debate will round the day off, coordinated by Fondazione Sigma-Tau, with Enrico Alleva, chairman of the Italian Society of Ethology and research supervisor in the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
"The Istituto Superiore di Sanità is over 70, but it is getting on well", Garaci states. "It was and it is still today a place where excellence research is being carried out, looking to everybody's health. Many years have passed since Ernst Chain investigated in its labs the working mechanism of insulin. And since Daniel Bovet studied curare, thereby revolutioning the field of anaesthesiology more or less in the same years. Both researches won the Nobel Prize for such high-profile studies, geared toward discovering or improving cures.
Today the main focus is on biomedicine: staminal cells studies, adjustment of vaccines against old or new viruses, research of drugs for individual genetic profiles. However, ISS of today and tomorrow has even international agreements with the most renowned research institutes throughtout the world; positive results are already being harvested in diagnostics, oncologic treatments, and the field of neurodegenerative diseases. But the agreements have not overlooked the struggle against poverty-related diseases, as there are several projects committed to that, especially for tubercolosis, malaria fever, and Aids which kill millions of people on the other side of our planet."
This meeting enables to retrace lives and deeds of very young scientists in a school of excellence, which radically changed Medicine by laying grounds for many developments still active to-date. Also thanks an idea of School, organization, group work.
The series "S & E - SCHOOL and EXCELLENCE: Schools of Science in XX-century Italy" has already taken place on October 27, November 13 and will continue on December 14. The meetings aim at being an occasion to think over chances and limits of scientific research and scientific culture in Italy -- but also to consider which conditions have fostered outstanding results, as well as which reasons have kept from setting up a sound and efficient system of scientific production. |
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October 27: ENRICO BELLONE, "ENRICO FERMI, PHYSICS AND THE VIA PANISPERNA BOYS"
November 13: UMBERTO BOTTAZZINI, "ENTRE-DEUX-GUERRES MATHEMATICIANS IN ROME: ITALY'S LESSON"
December 14: GILBERTO CORBELLINI, "THE ERADICATION OF MALARIA: THE ITALIAN EXAMPLE" |
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