When ‘the man met the machine’ and everything changed. Also in medicine, thanks to new investigation methods, new systems to discover the world of cells and tissues, and new ways to understand the most hidden mechanisms of the organism and treat its diseases. These are the themes chosen this year for the Neuromed European Researchers’ Night, still in virtual mode. The appointment is for tomorrow 24 September, with a live broadcast on Facebook and YouTube scheduled from 9.30 to 12 and aimed at high school students in Molise and Campania. (Read the program)
The title chosen for the 2021 edition, paraphrasing a book by the Nobel laureate Konrad Lorentz – they explain from the center of Molise – speaks of two worlds: on the one hand that of machines, artificial intelligences, robots; on the other that of human beings. Neuromed Foundation and Irccs Neuromed of Pozzilli (Isernia), in collaboration with Irccs Fondazione Pascale and Città della Scienza of Naples, deploy their scientists who will take turns to guide the students on an online visit of the institutions promoting the event. Researchers will illustrate ongoing studies and future prospects to young people.
The ‘B-Future – Building the Future’ project is associated with the European Researchers’ Night of the EU, funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, recalls a note. It is possible to follow the virtual edition by connecting to the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/neuromedIRCCS, or on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/IstitutoNeuromed.
“Also this year we are in the field with the Researchers’ Night in a different way, for online prudence, due to the pandemic” of Covid-19, says Mario Pietracupa, president of the Neuromed Foundation. “However, we want to give our contribution above all to the younger generations who will follow this initiative. For this we must be grateful to our partners who are the Pascale Institute and the City of Science, together with the Molise Regional School Office. New technologies – he stresses – are changing the way in which scientists face reality and look for the keys to its interpretation. Machines and artificial intelligences will accompany doctors and researchers ever more closely. It is a world that we must make known to the new generations, because new answers will be born from it for health. Just mention one of the most important projects we have in the field: Big data “.
“It is not easy to make the public understand how much technological advances are doing to shape the world that awaits us in the coming years – underlines Giovanni de Gaetano, president of Irccs Neuromed – We are delving deeper and deeper into the mechanisms that govern the functions of the body, and consequently in all those alterations that can cause pathologies. What was a simple image, perhaps a CT scan, in the eyes of an artificial intelligence becomes something more, a source of information from which to extract the basis for better decisions and better therapies . Sophisticated software, and equally sophisticated machines, for example those we see in the field of rehabilitation, are true allies of humanity. They will help us to better understand medicine and to develop it in directions that perhaps we cannot even imagine today. Humans and machines. , committed to an alliance never before seen on Earth.This is the panorama we want to present to the studs entities “.