2013 Programme
EVENT #26
Silvio Garattini
Brain aging: a 3rd millennium epidemic
We are aging. All of us. More and more. The reasons are that thanks to scientific research our life expectancy is increasingly significantly, and that there are more and more elderly people and fewer and fewer young. But how do we age? What happens to our minds? What are the aging-associated diseases? And above all, why are we not preparing for this sea change? Society, the media, perhaps all of us are overlooking the issue of brain aging, which instead will be the true scourge of the 3rd millennium. The only answer lies in scientific research, in a careful preparation of society and its health system, and above all in the necessary prevention. This is the only way that we and our brains can age well.
is the director of the Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, which he founded in 1963. The institute has produced over 13,000 scientific papers in oncology, chemotherapy and immunology of cancer, pharmacology and neuropsychopharmacology. Garattini has authored hundreds of papers and studies on pharmacology. He has founded the European Organization for Research on Treatment of Cancer. He holds positions of prestige in Europe's leading scientific bodies: he is a member of the board of Italy's Higher Institute of Health, president of the European Society of Biochemical Pharmacology, vice-president of Italy's Higher Health Council, president of the Research and Development Committee of Italy's Drug Administration. He is also a member of the Higher Health Council and of Italy's National Bioethics Committee. His books include: Fa bene o fa male? Salute, ricerca e farmaci: tutto quello che bisogna sapere (Sperling & Kupfer, 2013).
EVENT #18
Stefano Bartezzaghi, Massimo Recalcati
To inherit or to be creative? Art in the time of disoriented generations
