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Biotech's promises for the future: turning challenges into opportunities
LOCATION: FieraMilanoCity. The Room of each Conferences Sessions is mentioned within the following programme.
ENTRANCE: The access to the Conference is free, upon payment of the Fair ticket (except 25th of October).
PARTICIPATION: Participants are adviced to report to the Conference reception desk well in advance; at least, 20 minutes before the start of the session.
LANGUAGE: Unless otherwise specified, Conference Presentations will be in English; simultaneous translation will not be provided.
* to be confirmed
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Bolaffio room, hall 1. This session will be held in Italian | |
11.30-13.00 | Roundtable |
| Panelists: |
| Francesca Pasinelli (Telethon) |
| Carlo Mango (Fondazione Cariplo) |
| Mario Alberto Battaglia (FISM) |
Oro room, hall 1. This session will be held in Italian - Sponsored by Assogenerici | |
Chair: Leonardo Santi (Comitato Nazionale per la Biosicurezza e Biotecnologie) | |
14.00-14.10 | Apertura dei lavori e introduzione a cura del Chair |
14.10-14.30 | Le risposte terapeutiche: la posizione della scienza |
14.30-14.50 | Normativa internazionale |
1514.50-15.10 | Bandi di gara e procedure d'acquisto |
15.10-16.00 | La posizione delle aziende |
Oro room, hall 1 |
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Oro room, hall 1. Session sponsored by Società Italiana Brevetti | |
Chair: to be defined* | |
10.00-10.15 | European legislation |
10.15-10.35 | Legal aspects in the protection of biotechnology inventions |
10.35-10.50 | Technology transfer and technology development at IFOM and IEO: the TTFactor Srl model |
10.50-11.00 | Question Time |
Oro room, hall 1. Organized in cooperation with AIFI - Italian Association of Private Equity and Venture Capital. Sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers | |
Chair: Marco Tanzi Marlotti (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) |
Argento room, hall 1 Session sponsored by bioMérieux Italia SpA | |
Chair: Cristina Pintus (AIFA) | |
| Panelists: |
| Mauro Picardo (Istituto Dermatologico San Gallicano Roma) |
| Marco Dieci (Molmed SpA) |
| Giorgio Prina (bioMérieux Italia SpA) |
| Riccardo Pietrabissa (Politecnico di Milano) |
Argento room, hall 1 | |
Chair: Fabrizio Pirri (Politecnico di Torino) | |
11.30-11.40 | Welcome and opening address |
11.40-11.55 | Micro and nanotechnologies for biomolecular detection |
11.55-12.10 | Advancing applied and fundamental neurophysiology with micro-/nano-structured neuroelectronic devices |
12.10-12.25 | Nanoparticles for Drug-Delivery |
Oro room, hall 1 |
Oro room, Hall 1. In collaboration with Innovhub - Promos | |
Chair: to be defined* | |
15.30-15.40 | Welcome and opening address |
15.40-16.00 | Trasnational cluster network in the biotech and medtech sector at Alpine level. The experience of the Alps Bio Cluster project |
16.00-16.20 | Advanced Biotech Cluster platform for Europe: cluster efforts to create more efficient support services for bio companies |
16.20-16.40 | Focused collaborations with emerging countries. When Europe meets India with the European Business and Technology Centre |
16.40-17.00 | Added value services for biotech operators across Europe and beyond: the Enterprise Europe Network |
17.00-17.10 | Question Time |
17.10-17.20 | Conclusions and closure of the session by the Chair |
Argento room, hall 1. Sponsored by Astra Zeneca | |
Chair: Maria Grazia Daidone (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori) | |
14.00-14.10 | Welcome and opening address by the Chair |
14.10-14.25 | Membrane-bound TRAIL as an anticancer agent: preclinical experience and clinical programs at Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori |
14.25-14.40 | From bench to bedside: Vandetanib(Zactima), an orphan drug for the treatment of advanced medullary thyroid carcinoma |
Argento room, hall 1 | |
Chair: Laura Teodori (BAS BIOTEC-MED, ENEA) | |
15.30-15.40 | Welcome and opening address |
15.40-16.00 | Smart technologies for regeneration of bone and cartilage |
16.00-16.20 | Bioreactors in Regenerative Medicine: from the bench to the bedside |
16.20-16.40 | Tissue engineering in orthopedic surgery : clinical applications |
16.40-17.00 | Tissue engineering technologies in cardiovascular medicine |
17.00-17.20 | Tissue Engineering and Heart Mending |
17.20-17.30 | Conclusion and closure of the session by the chair |
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Oro room, hall 1. In collaboration with Assobiotec | |
Chair: Gianluca Carenzo (Parco Tecnologico Padano) | |
10.00-10.10 | Welcome and opening address |
10.10-10.40 | The new challenges of the nutritional research |
10.40-11.10 | Nutrilipidomics: starting from cell membrane |
11.10-11.45 | Research, development and production of functional foods |
11.45-12.30 | Food Industry and functional foods |
12.30-12.40 | Question Time |
12.40-12.50 | Conclusion and closure of the session by the Chair |
Argento room, hall 1 | |
Chair: Aurelio Viglia (AIDIC) | |
10.00-10.10 | Welcome and opening address |
10.10-10.30 | Industrial biotechnology and beyond biofuels. US and global business clusters and investments trends |
10.30-10.50 | Energy (and More) from Microalgae: opportunities, issues and possible developments scenarios |
10.50-11.10 | Use of enzymes in API synthesis: two examples |
11.10-11-30 | Biotransformation of Plant Active Intermediates |
Argento room, hall 1 | |
Chair: to be defined* | |
00:00-00:00 | The Biotech Industry for the Rare Diseases |
