BERGAMO (ITALPRESS) – A new agreement between the University of Bergamo and the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, now united by a bond, lasting three years with the possibility of renewal, that aims to strengthen collaboration between the two institutions in the areas of teaching and scientific research, with particular reference to biomedical engineering.
The agreement, signed by the Rector of the University of Bergamo, Professor Sergio Cavalieri, and the Director of the Mario Negri Institute, Professor Giuseppe Remuzzi, was presented on Monday, March 3, at the Rector’s Office in Via Salvecchio. Representing the Orobic University, Professor Andrea Remuzzi and researcher Chiara Emma Campiglio from the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering attended the signing, while Dr. Michela Bozzetto and Dr. Anna Caroli from the Department of Bioengineering attended for the Mario Negri Institute.
The agreement provides for the implementation of educational activities for UniBg students, from bachelor’s and master’s degree programs to doctoral programs; the development of joint research projects in areas of common interest; and the establishment of a joint laboratory of mechanobiology for medicine, which will allow advanced studies in the field to be carried out, taking advantage of the equipment and technical and scientific expertise of both institutions and fostering the exchange of knowledge and integration between teaching and applied research.
The University of Bergamo will provide its equipment and expertise at the Dalmine site, while the Mario Negri Institute will host research activities at the Anna Maria Astori Center in Bergamo and the “Aldo and Cele Daccò” Rare Disease Clinical Research Center in Ranica.
The agreement between UniBg and IRCCS Mario Negri is part of a framework of activities already initiated between the two entities, also linked by the partnership of the University Center for Healthy Longevity (Centre for Healthy Longevity – CHL), which originates from the commitment in the area of Lifestyles, Health and Personal Wellbeing expressed in the University Strategic Plan 23-27, and the Health and Longevity PhD Program.
“Advances in medicine are increasingly based on the development of technologies that are now a predominant part of the activities of physicians and nurses,” explains the Rector, Prof. Sergio Cavalieri. “The development and use of these systems requires increasingly close collaboration between physicians and engineers. Even within the engineering area of the University of Bergamo, new areas of research have developed in the field of biomedical engineering: it is precisely on the basis of close collaboration between engineers, physicians and biologists that progress can be made in research and the clinic. A prerequisite for these research activities are the educational activities of the University of Bergamo in the area of health: in fact, about ten years ago, a Bachelor’s degree course in ‘Health Technology Engineering’ was activated, followed by the Master’s degree course in ‘Medical Engineering’. The collaboration established with the Mario Negri Institute represents a further, fundamental step to strengthen the axis between education and scientific research.”
(ITALPRESS)
