Participants: Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Professor at the University of Milan; Mario Giovanni Melazzini, Councillor for Productive Activities, Research and Innovation of the Lombardy Region, Scientific Director of the NeMo (NEuroMuscular Omnicentre) Clinical Centre in Milan and President of AriSla (Agency for Research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis); Massimo Scaccabarozzi, President of Farmindustria. Introduced by Domenico Coviello, Director of the Laboratory of Human Genetics at Galliera Hospital in Genoa and Co-president of the Association Scienza e Vita (Science & Life). On this occasion screening of the video-message by Beatrice Lorenzin, Minister of Health.