Fondazione Terzo Pilastro is now backing medical research and has joined Fondazione Biogem (biology and molecular genetics), established by important universities and research centres such as the University of Naples Federico II, the Bicocca University of Milan, the University of Sannio, the Stazione Zoologica \u2018Anton Dohrn\u2019 in Naples and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council).\u00a0 The Biogem\u2019s research centre, built on an area of 35.000 square meters in Ariano Irpinio in the province of Avellino, was opened in 2006 with a ceremony attended by the Nobel laureate Rita Levi Montalcini.<\/p>\n
Biogem recently registered an international patent for a promising molecule to cure Mesothelioma and the encouraging findings have aroused the interest of many pharmaceutical companies. A scientific partnership has been formed with Boston\u2019s Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, a major teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School, whilst agreements have been reached with the Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant\u2019Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the University of Sannio for a master\u2019s degree course in Quantitative and Computational Biology for students from all over the world to be held in Biogem\u2019s centre.<\/p>\n
The Chairman of Biogem, Ortensio Zecchino, illustrated the results at the opening of the ninth annual meeting Le Due Culture, held on the 7th of September in Ariano, which was focused on \u201cFood: health, culture, pleasure and torment\u201d. Scientists, philosophers, clerics, intellectuals, jurists and artists convened to examine the issue from various points of view. Having mentioned that, \u201cBiogen is gaining credibility as a research centre, university and disseminator of knowledge and that, although it is located in Sothern Italy and unlike other institutions its funds are unstable, it has managed to increasingly stand out amid many national giants\u201d Zecchino stated that, \u201cpharmaceutical drugs are being replaced with nutraceuticals, which are carefully studied at Biogem\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n