(October 12, 2016) The best of Italian research that has established itself abroad meets the future pole of excellence Human Technopole. It is the agreement that, climbing over the Atlantic Ocean, will be signe on the occasion of the annual event of ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation), hosted this year on October 17 and 18, at the Italian Embassy in Washington under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic. The foundation will award 5 ISSNAF young Italian scientists who have excelled in research centers and universities in the US and Canada working on leukemia, life sciences and cognitive sciences, engineering, mathematics and physics, environmental science, astrophysics and chemistry. In addition, the Dante scholar Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor at Yale University, will be honored with the prestigious Life Achievement Award ISSNAF. “Innovation through Science” (innovation through science) is the title and main theme of the two days, full of presentations, with panels and discussions among leading members of the world of science and the business community. Very expected to Roberto Cingolani, Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) will present “The IIT model and Human Technopole”, presenting for the first time in the US the research center that will be built on the grounds of the Expo Milan. During the annual event it will also be awarded the 3rd prize Cav. Lav. Fulvio Bracco – Innovation in diagnostic imaging. The 15 young finalists of the fifth annual awards ISSNAF will present research that have placed them in the spotlight of the scientific community. An exciting cross-section: Francesca Civano and Nico Cappelluti, that in the US observe the black holes working shoulder to shoulder with NASA, the ultra-insulating windows of Foggia-Canadian Umberto Berardi, Marco Pavone space robots, director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, up to Marta Pallotto, Marche in Meryland neurobiologist who studies the neurons are able to regenerate. The appointment is at the Italian Embassy in Washington. On Monday, October 17 it will start at 14.15 with the greetings from Ambassador Armando Varricchio. Monica Veronesi, executive director ISSNAF, introduces the work and launches the operation in video of Diana Bracco, president of Alisei, on the theme of the National Life Sciences Cluster. (Red)
