GIACOMO BASTIANELLI participated to the meeting BIOVISION 2007 in Lyon 11-14
The world life science forum gathered this year more than 2300 delegates from the Industry, Society and Science to debate on critical issues that involve life science and biotechnology.
How can science help to develop a more sustainable world development?
How can technology and industry support the achievement of millennium goals?
Regarding the point of the Millennium Goals (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/), we are still far away to reach them within the proposed deadline (2015) especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa . This is not because we do not have the technologies or the money to achieve these goals, we just do not have the will. It is then a political issue less than technical or scientific. In fact, 10.6 million children die every year before they reach the age of 5, majority from preventable and treatable conditions. Bringing clean water is an old, cheap and known technology which could save millions of life each year, all that we need could be a 0.1% of all the money that are spent in arms and wars around the world.
We need to build bridges among science, society and industry and we need to do it quickly before the situation become irreversible. There is urgency for new leaders with a new vision for the next 200 years, a demand of new strategies to develop drugs for market with reduced or minimal potentials and governments that do not sleep and ignore these issues.
Biovision.nxt brings together the best Ph.Ds, Post-Docs and MBAs from all around the world to generate new ideas, to bring solutions to these dilemmas. The session dedicated to the Biovision.nxt fellows covered not only themes related to Biovision but also specific sessions in career development, Ph.D training and peer-review process which were extremely useful especially for a Ph.D student.
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