Conference President

President Giorgio Cini Foundation

President Silvio Tronchetti Provera Foundation

Conference Vice President

Conference Secretary General

Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor in Mood Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Edoardo Boncinelli, Professor of Biology and Genetics, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano

Telmo Pievani, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Università Milano Bicocca

Giorgio Vallortigara, Professor of Neuroscience, Director Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, Università di Trento

Tomaso Poggio, Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behaviour, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

Maria Concetta Morrone, Professor of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Università di Pisa

Cristina Alberini, Professor of Neoroscience, Structural and Chemical Biology and Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

Massimiliano Bucchi, Professor of Sociology of Science, Università di Trento

William Weiss, Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

Giancarlo Comi, Professor of Neurology, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano

Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gabriella Pravettoni, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Università degli Studi di Milano

Giulio Tononi, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin

Enrico Berti, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science, Università degli Studi di Padova, , Giulio Giorello, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Università degli Studi di Milano

Umberto Veronesi

Conference President

Chiara Tonelli

Conference Secretary General