Scientific Committee

Prof. Angelo L. Vescovi

Angelo Luigi Vescovi, is an associate professors of Cell Biology at the University of Milan Bicocca and the Director of Research for the Hospital IRCCS CSS and Institute for Human Genetics G. Mendel in Rome. He is the President of the Italian Committee on Bioethics of the Prime Minister of Italy.  He worked at the University of Calgary from 1991 to 1993 with Prof. Samuel Weiss, participating in the initial discovery of brain stem cells in the adult brain. He spent the last three decades to investigate the  regulation of cell fate, proliferation, differentiation and plasticity in neural stem cells and is translating neural stem cell biology into innovative therapies for brain disorders. He introduced the concept of systemic delivery of neural stem cell for the therapy of multiple sclerosis, has shown the existence of cancer stem cells in malignant human gliomas and proposed a novel, potential biotherapy for human malignant tumors. He was the principal investigator for the first phase I clinical trial for ALS and in MS with intracerebral implantation of brain stem cells  and for the use of pro-differentiation therapy in glioblastomas. Vescovi was a scientific consultant for the Pontifical Academy for Sciences of the State of Vatican and for the Select Committee on Stem Cells of the House of Lords (England) and for the European Commission. He has given over 100 invited international lectures and was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum and European Economic Forum.  He  published over 200 articles in leading scientific journals.