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Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy
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The Brain in Health and Disease
Rome, April 22nd 2009
Palazzo Senatorio, Aula di Giulio Cesare and Sala della Protomoteca
Piazza del Campidoglio |
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Scientific Committee:
Adriano Aguzzi (Switzerland)
Emilio Bizzi (USA)
Pietro Calissano (Italy)
Antonino Cattaneo (Italy)
Lamberto Maffei (Italy)
William Mobley (USA)
Piergiorgio Strata (Italy) Conference Chair |
Invited Speakers:
Anders Björklund (Sweden)
Pietro Calissano (Italy)
Antonino Cattaneo (Italy)
Elena Cattaneo (Italy)
Moses Chao (USA)
Aaron Ciechanover (Israel)
Stanley Cohen (USA)
James Fawcett (UK)
Ezio Giacobini (Switzerland)
William Mobley (USA)
Torsten Wiesel (USA) |
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Conference Program
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9:15 |
Arrival of participants |
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10:00
10:15 |
Piergiorgio Strata, Scientific Director, EBRI “Rita Levi-Montalcini” - Italy, Welcome Message
Gianni Alemanno, Sindaco di Roma
Piero Marrazzo, Presidente della Regione Lazio
Nicola Zingaretti, Presidente della Provincia di Roma
Maria Stella Gelmini, Ministro dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
Ferruccio Fazio, Sottosegretario di Stato al Lavoro, alla Salute e alle Politiche Sociali
Luciano Maiani, Presidente del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Opening Addresses |
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Session 1 |
Chair: Emilio Bizzi, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, M.I.T., USA |
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11:00 |
Stanley Cohen, Nobel Laureate 1986 - USA
“Origins of Growth Factors: NGF and EGF” |
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11:30 |
Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate 2004 - Israel
“Protein Turnover - from the Bench to the Bedside” |
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12:00 |
Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Laureate 1981 - USA
“Reflections on neuroscience in the last century” |
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12:30 |
End of Session 1 |
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Session 2 |
Chair: Giorgio Bernardi, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy |
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13:30 |
James Fawcett, Cambridge Center for Brain Repair, UK
“Repairing the damaged spinal cord” |
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14:00 |
Ezio Giacobini, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
“Therapy of Alzheimer disease: the future” |
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14:30 |
Anders Björklund, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center Lund University, Sweden
“Toward a Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson´s Disease” |
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15:00 |
Elena Cattaneo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
“Huntington’s disease” |
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15:30 |
Coffee-break |
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Session 3 |
Chair: Lamberto Maffei, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and CNR Pisa, Vice-president, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome - Italy |
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15:50 |
William Mobley, University of California, San Diego, USA
“Target-Derived Neurotrophic Signals - Rita and the Continuing Story of the NGF” |
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16:20 |
Moses Chao, New York University Medical Center, USA
“Neurotrophins: How to keep your brain alive” |
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16:50 |
Pietro Calissano, Vice-President, EBRI “Rita Levi-Montalcini” e CNR - Italy
“The NGF cell interaction to induce and analyze an Alzheimer’s like molecular syndrome” |
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17:10 |
Antonino Cattaneo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, EBRI “Rita Levi-Montalcini” - Italy
“Taking pain out of NGF” |
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17:30 |
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Concluding speech |
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