 Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome everybody. Welcome to the audience in this room today and to everyone who is following us online on Zoom. Welcome to this first day of this two-day workshop on technology transfer in life sciences, organized by Human Technical, NetVal and Yus Pavia. I am Nicola Nozingo. I am the editor of Nature Italy. I'll be moderating this first day of this workshop. I will only say before starting to introduce our speakers today that as a journalist covering science, research and innovation in Italy, I am extremely interested in the topic of this two-day event because technology transfer is an essential element for the future of Italian science and ultimately of the Italian economy. We spend a lot of time with science journalists and scientists alike saying remarking how important it would be to increase the investment in research, either basic or applied in Italy. And of course, that's a very important topic and we are right in keep saying that. But that's only one of the wheels of the mechanism that turns science into an engine of growth for a country. Another essential wheel is technology transfer. Not coincidentally, the Italian recovery plan, the PNRR, PNRR puts a lot of emphasis on the topic of technology transfer and it is essential to improve the mechanisms and ultimately to improve the culture around technology transfer in Italy. So this two-day event is the beginning of a project and of a new role that Human Technical will assume with respect to the Italian community on the topic of technology transfer. And over these two days you will hear a bit about the topic of technology transfer in life science in its various aspects and also a series of case studies of scientific projects that made it into becoming innovation projects, companies, successful companies and so on. Now to tell you a bit more of the meaning of this workshop and of the larger project that Human Technical has, I would like to invite to the stage Fabio Terragni with a member of the Management Committee of Human Technical in particular in charge of technology transfer. Fabio Terragni has been involved in innovation in various capacities as a professor, as a consultant, as a manager of public and private innovation ventures and he will tell us a bit more about Human Technical's project in this field. Welcome Fabio. Thank you and welcome here in Human Technical to all the present audience and to the people who is following us online. It's a pleasure for me to welcome you and to thanks the people who organized with us this first initiative in technology transfer. That's Netval, that's the National Association for the Valorization of Science and use the superior high-study school that will be presented much better than what can I do by Ricardo Pietrabiça in Paria. Together we organized such a workshop because we wanted to emphasize that in Italy there is not only a very good science in life science and not only but there are also a lot of interesting and wonderful experiences in the technology transfer of the knowledge that has been acquired in the laboratories. So we want to support the growth of the technology transfer I can say movement and helping all the young researchers, all the researchers and all the institutions who are involved in this venture to do the best with our small support because even Human Technical is a starting venture so we want to stay with you and with the existing institution to reinforce to strengthen the technology transfer research movement. I want to introduce you what's going on in the Human Technical now in the first slide we can see in the following slide we can see okay thank you sorry we want to recall what's our mission Human Technical has been established to carry out frontier research to improve people's health and well-being with a setup of large-scale laboratories where we started to build with interdisciplinary laboratories we research infrastructures and it wants to be an open hub to all the community of researchers in Italy and not only in Italy and one of the mission of Human Technical is also to develop industrial collaboration and technology transfer activities. In the first years of activities of the Human Technical we have been able to develop some starting points such as first of all the choice of the main directors first of all Jan Matai is the scientific director of the Human Technical he comes from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and has a very strong experience in developing and managing such kind of institutions in the following months we develop you know offices and laboratories and now at the end of 2021 we reach the number of 200 people of staff part administrative staff and part research staff and we hope to reach the number of 450 people at the end of 2023 so it's a growing hub doing research working with the national health system and industry and now we have been appointed with a new role that has been a low the low decree number 2034 of May 2020 giving us the role of establishing a center for innovation and technology transfer inside the Human Technical and to promote collaboration in the field with existing institutions so we are doing both such activities this is the first initiative in the field of technology transfer and we are very happy to have a high-level panel and we want with this initiative motivate young researchers to do their best in you know developing their research and transferring to the market so very briefly we will take care of IP management of dissemination research results of networking in the field and strategic development in life science as I said this is the first initiative it will be followed to with a by a course I would like to call a course of training in technology transfer with more detail that will be developed together with netval in the following months and there will be other initiatives that we will present in the following in the next few months that's it thank you again I give back the floor to the moderator thanks for coming here and have a nice time with us thank you thank you thank you very much to Fabio Tarragni for this introduction I'm sure I'm sure the initiatives you have just presented will be extremely interesting interesting for the Italian scientific community and for the many researchers who have a potential innovation waiting in their labs and on their tables