Life in Science (PDF)

Diego Breviario worked for 40 years in the field of molecular genetics applied to yeast, humans and plants. His work took him to the National Institute of Health USA; North Carolina State University USA, and the Italian National Research Council. He has been scientific leaders of more than 30 projects, with more than 100 international publications to his name. He has been one the editorial board of the journals : GENES, Transgenic Research, and PLOS ONE. Received awards from Ciba-Geigy, Academia dei Lincei-Rotary, National Institutes of Health USA. He has also authored three novels on science, published in Italian. Diego has also prepared texts for educational videos in the English and Italian language. As an inventor he appears on three released patent applications, one national and two European. He has served as advisor for the EU and for national and international Universities. Major expertise : genetics, genomics, cell biology. Major area of interest : agrifood.



Jack Tuszynski is Professor of biophysics at the Department of Physics, University of Alberta and Professore Ordinario in biomedical engineering at the Politecnico di Torinoin Turin, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. From 1983 to 1987 he was a faculty member at the Department of Physics of the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's. Between 2005 and 2020 he held the prestigious Allard Chair in Oncology at the Cross Cancer Institute. He held visiting professorship in China, Germany, France, Israel, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland. He is on the editorial board of almost 30 international journals including the Journal of Biological Physics. He is an Associate Editor of The Frontiers Collection, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.