FIRST INSUBRIA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN METHODOLOGY, ETHICS AND INTEGRITY IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

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PUBLISH OR PERISH

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CONTENT

Walter AGENO
What are scientific publications?

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Lorenzo MOJA
The publication process, the scientific publications global market, open access journals
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Daniele FANELLI
Publication and other biases: what they are and how they affect science
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Marco COSENTINO
Bibliometrics (is) for dummies? Use, abuse and misuse of citation analysis
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HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS

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CONTENT

Giuseppe ARMOCIDA
L'integrità del medico e l'integrità nella ricerca: sviluppo storico

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Renzo PEGORARO
Integrità nella ricerca: quale ruolo per i comitati etici
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Mario PICOZZI
Ruolo della consulenza etica nella ricerca clinica
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Marco FERRARI
Responsible research practice in pharmacogenetic studies
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Paolo CATTORINI
Farmaci, etica e cinema
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PRECLINICAL RESEARCH AND LABORATORY ANIMAL CARE AND USE

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CONTENT

Marco COSENTINO   
Responsible use of animals in science: time for a "Nuremberg code"?

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Francesco CARU'
Preclinical research, best practices and good Science
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Elena MONTI
The animal-welfare body in the European and Italian legislation:
the experience at the University of Insubria
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Malcolm MACLEOD
Animal models of human diseases - increasing value, reducing waste
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Lorenzo MOJA
Meta-analysis in animal studies: the case of statins
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Franca MARINO
The promotion of safe and healthful working environment
in biomedical research laboratories
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RESEARCH INTEGRITY

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CONTENT

Marco COSENTINO   
Research integrity: what is it and why should we care about it?

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Tony MAYER
Promoting research integrity issues in Italy
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Laura RIBEIRO
How to deal with concepts of scientific integrity: integration on a course of medical humanities
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Marco COSENTINO
Research misconduct: what is it and how to deal with it?
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Marco  TADDIA
On the frauds of observers: Babbage’s classification

revisited and updated
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Alice FABBRI
Introduzione al conflitto di interessi nella ricerca scientifica[link to YT Video]

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The PROGRAM at a GLANCE
Timetable         Topics  

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The First Italian Neuroimmune Pharmacology Conference: Varese (I), 15-16 November 2013

The first Italian neuroimmune pharmacology (INIP) conference sponsored by SIF - Italian Society of Pharmacology took place November 15th-16th 2013 at the University of Insubria, under the auspices of the SIF Working Groups on Inflammation and on Neurodegenerative Disease. Overall, 37 abstracts were received, from more than 53 institutions, belonging to 18 universities and 20 academic and non-academic biomedical research organizations.

The opening address of the conference has been given by Dr. Howard E. Gendelman, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience of the University of Nebraska Medical Center USA and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. The keynote lecture has been given by Dr. Sujit Basu of the Department of Pathology at the Ohio State University USA who presented the most recent research achievements concerning dopamine-mediated regulation of angiogenesis in tumors and in normal wound tissues and the implications for the use of dopaminergic agents for non conventional therapeutic indications, such as endometriosis, wound repair and as adjuvant drugs in anticancer chemotherapy.

Among the authors of the 20 abstracts selected as oral communications, the Scientific Committee of the Conference awarded the best three ones with the International Neuroimmune Pharmacology Graduate Student Prize, established thanks to a generous grant from JNIP. The young researchers awarded were: Silvia Franchi (University of Milan, Italy, who presented her latest results concerning stem cells as advanced therapy of neuropathic pain), Natasa Kustrimovic (University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, who is developing a research program about the dopaminergic modulation of the immune response and its relevance for the pharmacotherapy of Parkinson's disease) and Irene Paterniti (University of Messina, Italy, who is testing the neuroprotective effect of palmitoylethanolamide and luteolin on secondary inflammatory process associated with CNS pathologies).

* Final program of the Conference
* Abstracts - Convegno Monotematico SIF - Neuroimmune Pharmacology: Challenging Paradigms Beyond Boundaries. J. Neuroimm. Pharmacol. 2013, in press
* Editorial - Cosentino M., Marino F., Cuzzocrea S., Di Luca M. Neuroimmune Pharmacology: An Emerging Discipline for the Italian Society of Pharmacology. J. Neuroimm. Pharmacol. 2013, in press
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Convegno monotematico SIF: "Neuroimmune Pharmacology" - Varese, 15-16 novembre 2013 - FINAL PROGRAM AND AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTATIONS

FINAL PROGRAM

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ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Oral presentations are organized in oral sessions given in the program together with the time of presentation of each contribution. Each presentation is expected to last 12 minutes + 3 minutes discussion and change over.

The authors are kindly asked to upload their presentations directly within 30 minutes preceding the actual time block of the session. A lecture room assistant will be available for any help.

* Lecture Room Equipment:
- Beamer;
- Notebook for the upload of presentations (USB flash drive);
- Laserpointer;
- Microphones.
Please note that no laptop station will be available. You are kindly requested to provide your presentation on a USB flash drive directly at the conference.

The computer in each lecture room is equipped with the following software:
- Windows XP Pro
- Office 2007
- Acrobat Reader 11
- VLC 2.0.8
- Windows Media Player 11
- Internet Explorer 8
- Firefox 21
- Flash Player 11
- Shockwave 12
No other software will be available to run the presentations.

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POSTERS

Poster boards are in landscape format with a dimension of 84 cm width x 138 cm height. The poster size is determined by the author. All the material necessary for attaching the poster to the poster board is available at the Facility Desk in the poster area.

Authors are kindly asked to put up their posters on friday November 15th before 3pm, to enable the conference participants to view their posters at any time, and to take them down on saturday November 16th after 1pm and before 2pm. After this time, the remaining posters will be disposed by the conference staff (i.e. posters will not be stored anymore).

The presenting author is kindly asked to be present at the poster display for presentation during the attendance time of each poster session, as indicated in the program.

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Scientific Committee: 

Sujit Basu (USA), Marco Cosentino (I), Salvatore Cuzzocrea (I), 

Monica Di Luca (I), Marco Ferrari (I),
Howard H. Gendelman (USA), Franca Marino (I), Olimpia Meucci (USA)

 
Organizing Committee: 

Marco Cosentino, Franca Marino, Marco Ferrari