Dati Sanitari & Ricerca: equilibri tra privacy, etica e progresso – Health Data & Research: balancing privacy, ethics and progress
December 16, 2025 6:00 PM
The processing of health data is one of the most delicate challenges of contemporary scientific research. The meeting aims to clarify what is meant by health data, what are the regulatory and practical implications in biomedical research and how to balance the protection of privacy with innovation. Through the dialogue between legal, computer science and medical research experts, we will discuss responsibilities, opportunities and future prospects in data ethical management.
The webinar aims to open a reflection on the challenges related to the processing of health data in biomedical research, exploring how to reconcile protection needs, ethical needs and the drive for innovation. The goal is to offer a multi-voice comparison — ethical, technical and clinical — useful both to insiders and to the wider public interested in the subject.
MODALITY OF THE EVENT
Online event – platform Webex
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
The event is open to Alumni and students but also professionals and people interested in the topics of health research and data processing.
WHEN
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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SPEAKERS
Federico Cabitza is an associate professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He teaches human-machine interaction and decision-making support in various degree courses, including those in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence for Science and technology.
Since 2016 he has been collaborating with several hospitals, including the Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Hospital in Milan, with which he has a formal affiliation. His research interests concern the development and evaluation of medical Artificial Intelligence systems and their integration into clinical processes.
For several years he has been included in the world’s top 1% scientists (Medical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence categories) published by Stanford. He is the author with Floridi of “Artificial Intelligence, the use of new machines” (2021) – Bompiani.
Silvia Salardi (PhD) is an associate professor of Philosophy of Law and Bioethics in the Department of Law of the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she coordinates the Philosophy, Law and Ethics for Technologies (PhiLET) Research Group. In recent years she has coordinated several Erasmus+ projects on the subject of new technologies and their ethical-legal implications, collaborating with European and international bodies. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
She is a founding member of the Interdepartmental Laboratory TecSEDU (Emerging technologies, society, ethics, and human rights) at the University of Milano-Bicocca and of the Research HUB SHADE (Sustainability, health, AI, Digital Technologies and the Environment) at King’s College London.
She is a member of the Open Council of Europe Academic Network-OCEAN and an associate member of the NeuroEthos project that concerns the phenomenon of neuroabandonment and funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) coordinated by the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Basel. As a member of ethics panels, she is responsible for the ethical evaluation of European research projects.
Among her recent publications: Neurotecnologie tra potere e libertà. Medicina,etica, discriminazioni di genere, WoltersKluwer, 2024; Intelligenza artificiale e semantica del cambiamento: una lettura critica, Giappichelli, 2023.
Prof. Fabio Pagni, MD, is a Full Professor at UNIMIB, where he holds the role of Director of the School of Specialisation in Pathological Anatomy.
He is a pathologist responsible for the FNA ultrasound clinic at the IRCCS San Gerardo Monza. Fabio Pagni has dedicated the last few years to deepening his knowledge in proteomics and NGS to identify new diagnostic approaches in carcinomas. The potential correlation of proteomic profiles with genomic data could help discriminate against new diagnostic targets in oncology, potentially transferrable to routine clinical practice.
He was Principal Investigator of Italian and international funding (competitive: AIRC, PRIN and sponsored: Glaxo, Human Genome Science, Novartis), developing national and international collaborations, in particular on the genetic characterisation of pathways related to human carcinomas. He is the author of about 200 articles indexed on PUBMED.
MODERATOR
The lawyer Manuela Viscardi has a degree in Law from the University of Milan-Bicocca, a lawyer registered with the Milan Register, founder of Caronte Consultancy and member of the Board of Directors of BicoccAlumni.
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