Workshop on Higher Education and Professional Responsibility in CBRN Applied Sciences and Technology across the Sub-Mediterranean Region
3-4 April 2012. Palazzo Zorzi, Venice
Opening Session
“Luigi Sacco” University Hospital [Maria Rita Gismondo, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, and, University of Milan, Italy]
1. Workshop on
“Higher Education and
Professional
Responsibility”
Venice April 3-4, 2012
Maria Rita Gismondo
Clinical Microbiology
BSL4 Facility
L.Sacco University
Hospital, Milan (Italy)
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3. Research with its results has always put in
crisis the life of the human beings setting
solutions but at the same time giving
great enigmas.
4. Biological Dual-Use Research
“Biotechnology
represents a ‘dual use’
dilemma in which the
same technologies can be
used legitimately for
human betterment and Learnodes.com/Judy Breck
misused for bioterrorism”
Biotechnology Research in an Age of
Terrorism, National Academy of Sciences, 2004
5. Dual use of science
is
always close to us!
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7. The new technology is
the realization of absolute evil and
absolute good living together.
It’s our task to choose the good!
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8. The lesson learned from the past
• No one can predict the future
• The race to know and stop any negative
application of science is a failure
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10. The only choice is to give rules and
educate the peaceful use of new
technologies