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Organising Secretariat Giorgio Brunelli Founda/on Località Campiani 77 – 25060 Cella/ca (BS) Phone +39 030 3385141 Fax +39 030 3387595 E-‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.midollospinale.com
Studio Progress S.N.C. Via C. CaTaneo 51 – 25121 Brescia Phone +39 030 290326 E-‐mail: [email protected] Website: www.studioprogress.com
Giorgio Brunelli Founda/on for the Research on Spinal Cord Injuries NGO
Why Brescia?
There are numberless reasons for coming to Brescia in
December 2015. Numberless for us and numberless for
you. For us because Brescia is our city, the place where we
like to live and where we worked for more than 60
years. Brescia is also the place where our FoundaFon
was founded a long Fme ago and where it sFll
flourishes today. Numberless reasons for you: Brescia is the place where the eight previous successful
Symposia were held with the scienFfic contribuFon and
parFcipaFon of Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize for
Medicine and our past Honorary President.
Brescia is the place where the FoundaFon started the
basic research on spinal cord lesions which allowed us
to take the first steps in successful surgical procedures
to make paraplegics walk again. This was possible
thanks to an outstanding interdisciplinary work carried
out by a number of professors of the School of
Medicine-‐University of Brescia.
Last not least, it is worth menFoning the cultural and
historical reasons which have allowed Brescia to
become in 2011 a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks
to archeological famous sites like Santa Giulia, a
former monastery tradiFonally considered the place
where Desiderata, wife of Charlemagne and daughter
of the Longobard King Desiderius, spent her exile aWer
the annulment of her marriage in 771.
There are several other stories to be told and places
to be visited. So come and enjoy our Science, History
and Culture. (l.m.)
University of Brescia
www.midollospinale.com
Dr. Luisa Monini President, Giorgio Brunelli Founda/on
INVITATION
IX INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON SPINAL CORD INJURIES
BRESCIA 3 -‐5 DECEMBER 2015
ITALY
www.midollospinale.com
Dear Colleague, I am glad to announce the 9th International Symposium of Experimental Spinal Cord Repair and Regeneration, on the multidisciplinary approaches to the research and treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries.
Brescia on 3 - 5 December 2015 The Symposium, organized as the previous editions by the Giorgio Brunelli Foundation, will be dedicated to the memory of Nobel Laureate Prof. Rita Levi Montalcini, our Honorary President. H.R.H, Princess Fay Jahan Ara, our current Honorary President, will attend the Symposium. We will have the honor and the pleasure of having with us Ada E. Yonath, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome.
Prof. Rita Levi Montalcini †
Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1986 Past Honorary President, Giorgio Brunelli Founda/on
Prof. Giorgio Brunelli Founder and Scien/fic Director,
Giorgio Brunelli Founda/on
Symposium 2015 Main Topics and Events:
• Honorary Lecture by Nobel Laureate A. Yonath • Basic and applied research in experimental Spinal Cord repair and regenera/on
• Experimental studies and clinical use of stem cells and neurotrophic factors
• Robo/cs and Telemedicine
• Young Neuroscien/st Inves/gator Award supported by Dompè
• The 4th “Brunelli Club Mee/ng” dedicated to the most advanced surgical and neuro-‐rehabilita/on techniques in the treatment of the flaccid and spas/c palsies of upper limbs, including case reports.
«Once upon a /me anatomists, physiologists, neurologists,
all considered the Nervous System as something that was
to a certain point their own exclusively property. Luckily
nowdays this has changed, and now that the barriers are
not there any more, each expert has the chance to access
this field. In most recent years computer scien/sts,
physicists, mathema/cians, immunologists, clinicians and
surgeons from different fields have been giving decisive
contribu/ons to the understanding of the Brain and of its
many func/ons. I hope that in the future decades we will
be able to pass in real /me from the field of basic research
to the field of applied research, with immediate
consequences in the clinical field»
(Rita Levi Montalcini) We would be really pleased if you would come. Hoping to see you in Brescia, best regards Giorgio Brunelli
Rita Levi Montalcini had no doubts when she said that the
most important thing to occur in Neuroscience in the last
40 years is the fall of the barriers that isolated researchers
of the Central Nervous System from the other scien/sts.
Many outstanding scientific personalities have assured their participation. They will present their latest research in the field of molecular biology, normal and electronic histology, neurotransmitters and receptors, pharmacology, immunology, stem cells, electrophysiology, neurorehabilitation and functional electrical stimulation. New imaging techniques for spinal cord injuries as well as new surgical attempts to cure paraplegia will be presented. A special session will be dedicated to young researchers and their discoveries.
If proteins are the ‘building blocks’ of life, then
ribosomes are the factories that produce them. They
are large, complex par/cles within each cell that
translate the gene/c informa/on into tens of
thousands of proteins, each with a specific task to
perform within the body.
Owing to the fundamental role of ribosomes, many
an/bio/cs target them. Therefore, understanding their
structure and func/on can help biochemists develop
new an/bio/cs to disrupt bacterial ribosomes and so
fight the growing problem of bacterial drug resistance.
Prof. Ada E. Yonath
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009