Under the high Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic

2019 ISSNAF Annual Event

Science and Beauty: Leonardo’s legacy
Embassy of Italy - Washington, DC

November 14th 2019

8:00 Registration

Photography Exhibit POP Microscopy and Leonardo's legacy

9:00 Welcome addresses:

H.E. Armando Varricchio, Ambassador of Italy to the United States of America
Vito M. Campese, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Physiology, Biophysics,
Keck School of Medicine of USC, President of ISSNAF

Video Beautiful Science, a project of One Health Center of Excellence,

University of Florida, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation

9:30 Keynote speech:

Mauro Ferrari, President & CEO of Houston Methodist Research Institute,
Chairman designated of the European Research Council ERC

9:50 2019 ISSNAF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Mauro Ferrari

Introduction: Maurizio Vecchione, Executive VP for Global Good Research,

The Global Good Fund & ISSNAF Board of Trustee
Presentation of the Award art work: Alberto Di Mauro, ISSNAF
Representative for Italy

10:10 1st Panel: Leonardo, the Genius

Leonardo: Connecting art and Anatomy. Kevin Petti, Ph.D., Professor of

Anatomy, Departments of Science and Health, San Diego Miramar College

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Leonardo: Architecture and Technological Innovation. Sabine Frommel,

Director of Studies in the History of Renaissance at Ecole Pratique des Haute
Etudes, Sorbonne

Seeking Inspiration: Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Paintings. Barbara

Berrie, Ph.D. Head of the Scientific Research Department at the National
Gallery of Art. Washington D.C.

11:10 Q&A

11:30 Coffee Break

11:50 2nd Panel: The hidden signals: new breakthroughs in artificial intelligence
and medicine find parallels to Leonardo’s first graphical exploration of the
human body

Introduction: Maurizio Vecchione, Executive VP for Global Good Research,

The Global Good Fund & ISSNAF Board of Trustee

12:00 Redesigning Science through Beauty. Ilaria Capua, Director of the One Health
Center of Excellence, University of Florida

12:15 Novel Cancer Biomarker Discovery by Decoding images with Artificial

Intelligence. Courosh Mehanian, PhD, SR Team Lead for AI at the Center for
Intelligence Devices at Global Good Intellectual Ventures Laboratory

12:30 AI for Augmenting Medical Decision Making: Promise, Potential, Pitfalls.

Sameer K. Antani, PhD, NIH National Library of Medicine, Computer Science
Branch Chief

12:45 Global Virus Network Research: An Update. Pierluigi Petrone, CEO of The
Global Virus Network, Bethesda

13:00 Q&A

13:15 Light lunch

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14:30 ISSNAF Awards for Young Investigators

Introductory Remarks:
Vito M. Campese, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Physiology, Biophysics,
Keck School of Medicine of USC, President of ISSNAF

14:45 Paola Campese Award for Research on Leukemia: Giada Bianchi, Instructor of
Medicine Harvard Medical School at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
(Department of Medical Oncology. Division of Hematologic Neoplasia)

15:00 Mario Gerla Award for Young Investigators in Computer Sciences: Restuccia,
Francesco, Ph.D. Associate research scientist at Northeastern University,
Boston.

15:15 Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers: Elisa Franco, PhD,
Associate professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

15:30 IBM-Bio4Dreams Award for Research in Medicine, Biosciences and Cognitive

Science: Andrea Idilli, Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa
Barbara (Department of chemistry and biochemistry. Institute for collaborative
biotechnologies)

15:45 Anna Maria Molteni Award for Mathematics and Physics: Pietro Milillo, NASA
employee, Scientist II level, Radar Science Group NASA-JPL Pasadena, L.A.
California USA.

16:00 ISSNAF Young Investigators Awards Ceremony

H.E. Armando Varricchio, Ambassador of Italy to the United States of America

16:30 Closing Remarks:

Vito M. Campese, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Physiology, Biophysics,
Keck School of Medicine of USC, President of ISSNAF