Washington October 27, 2013 - From the archeocucinascientific research. These are the issues discussed yesterday during twoseparate conferences held as part of the 38th edition of the annual conventionof the National Italian American Foundation at the Hilton Hotel in the capital.The keynote event, which has raised two thousand people, was the gala dinner inthe Grand Ballroom at the conclusion of what was a weekend dedicated to Italianpride, but this year reduced the bone. The first conference organized by theRegion of Campania - with pride of place in the edition 2013 gala - bore thetitle "Archeocucina Bell, for two thousand years the most good, the mosthealthy." It was attended by dietitians and researchers, and academicinstitutions. For the Region of Campania drew conclusions Fulvio Martusciello,Councillor for Productive Activities. In the afternoon there was the secondconference on the theme "The current progress of Medicine, Surgery andBiotechnology" in the Independence Room of the Hilton celebrated with theparticipation of physicians, researchers and entrepreneurs. The panel wascomposed by the researcher Antonio Giordano, from Cataldo Doria one of theleading experts in transplantation and Pasquale De Blasio president Isenet. Theevent is a collaborative effort between the Sbarro Health ResearchOrganization, NIAF and the College of Technological Sciences of TempleUniversity, in addition to Giovan Giacomo Giordano Foundation. Antonio Giordanogave occasion to Cataldo Doria the award for "ethics and creativity"in memory of his father and consisting of a sculpture by artist Gennaro Sguro.We asked Antonio Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Researchand Molecular Medicine in Philadelphia to draw a picture of the achievements ofmedical science which is discussed at the Fourth Conference on the topic."There have been many important discoveries in medicine over the lastthirty years, genetics has exploded from the point of view of technologicalpotential. Yet, when these are taken in single does not mean the success ofthat search. Over the years, however, the complex of discoveries has had asignificant importance. now we have to try to be able to bring all this greatknowledge in a context where there is also a logical meaning application."The United States now in fact more and more fund research that leads tothe application on real patient and not just ideas, even invalid. "We cameto know and to seize incredible technology. Spite of all this, we havelimitations that can not lead to immortality, as we all think. There are,however, leading to knowledge that did not exist a century ago." Did notexist or were rare diseases - say, more than half a century ago - those linkedto the state of the environment in which we live, with "externalinsults" as the researcher commented. "It 's the case of Campania,where we have a number of diseases that were once rare, even more difficult toidentify. I explain in my book-white' land of Campania poisons' which had adisruptive effect. We were able to create sensitivity among the public, becauseit is based on a scientific work, live, with whom we were able to inform thepublic as to the Italian Government could not give and never gave, which is themajor limitation. "The aim of the book-report - said Giordano - was it arrivedin the hands of the people, "because they had to rebel and were thevictims." "The south of Italy was clearly the dustbin for thespillage of waste from industries in the North. I - said Giordano - I would notgive the blame to the Camorra, if anything, the state, the surface is absent, atechnician colleagues who have not done the work of control over the populationand the mafia is nothing more than the armed wing of a completely differentsituation. increased responsible for the situation is our Italian politicalclass. "On the topic of innovation, which is discussed at the fourthconference of medical NIAF, Jordan has linked the discussion to award thisyear. "We tried to give messages about the real innovations of medicalscience. This year in particular we have given the prize to a young Italian whocreated the Transplant Center in Philadelphia, making him one of the greatlandmarks in the world in the field of transplantation and liver tumors."Antonio Giordano has collected his father's values and ethics andcommented on the award: "Four years ago we decided to award a professionalin the field of medicine that is distinguished not only for large scientificqualities, but also for ethical and for the human qualities poured into themedical profession. "