Thursday 23 May 2024 – 09:00
The announcement Start Pitchconceived byUniversity of Pisa, has its winners. And, through Start Attractorthe attractor of skills and capital of the University of Pisa, they will receive a valuable prize total of 12 thousand euros in services.
It’s about two biomedical projectsone developed in Viterbo and one in Bari. The first is that of 3Treescarried out by the oncologist Fotios Loupakis and the geriatrician Giuseppe Pasqualetti with the purpose of avoid muscle weakness in elderly cancer patients. To do this, the start-ups he produced a supplement capable of intervening on the hormonal structurewhich in July should obtain approval from the Ministry of Health in the lists of foods for special medical purposes.
The second, however, was developed by Unicorna team of Bari researchers from Eurisko Technology Srl who, in collaboration with the “Murri” clinic of the “Aldo Moro” University of Bari and with the Policlinico Consortium University Hospital of Bari, has developed a diagnostic system based on theartificial intelligence able to identify hepatic steatosis early, that is, the situation of fatty liver which affects approximately one in three adults in Italy and which is a risk factor for many diseases. The system was presented by the software engineer Sergio Giovanni Santoro.
“We heard 11 innovative, curious, intelligent proposals – he commented Corrado Priami, vice-rector of the University of Pisa – inventions that ranged from environmental robotics to services for companies. Choosing wasn’t easy, but the two selected proposals convinced us more than the others and now we are happy to follow its growth.”
“With the announcement of the two winning projects, the second edition of Converging Skills – said the rector of the University of Pisa, Riccardo Zucchi – the feeling is of having built an already solid reality and of having collected many ideas. With these two days the University wanted to present itself to the productive world as conscious driver of economic, social and cultural developmentpaying maximum attention to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for sustainability”.
