Program - First day

PLENARY SESSION
 
Coordina: Mauro Rossetti - Director of the Associazione Tessile e Salute

9,00  Luigi Squillario - Chairman of Città Studi
Conference opening 
 
9,10  Vittorio Barazzotto - Mayor of the city of Biella
         Sergio Scaramal - President of the Province of Biella
         Paolo Frascisco - General Manager of ASL 12 of Biella
         Giovanni Pozzi - Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Biella
Welcome address 
 
9,40  Gianluca Susta - Vice-president Piedmont Region
Research and Innovation: strategic measures for relaunching the textile industry 
 
10,00 Mario Boselli - Chairman of the National Chamber for Italian Fashion
Fashion and Health: strategies for protecting the consumers' health and the Italian textile and clothing sector
 
10,20 Coffee break
 
10,50  Francesco Rio - World Health Organization, WHO - Switzerland
Health emergencies, poverty, epidemics: world scenarios for textile applications and research
 
11,00 Daniela Primicerio -  CNCU
The role of CNCU for Consumers' safety

11,20 Sergio Perticaroli - ISPESL
Workers' and consumers' protection: the role of ISPESL
 
11,40  Xing-Hua Gao - Dep. of Dermatology, No.1 Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang - China
Interactions between fibres and the skin, a bridging role for Chinese dermatologists
 
12,00  Elvio Mantovani - Airi/Nanotec IT 
Nanotechnologies in Italy: the Nanotec IT census
 
12,25  Claudio Germinario - European Patent Attorney
The protection of intellectual property rights for helping small and medium enterprises to develop, fight, and protect themselves
 
 

SESSION 1: THE COMMITMENT OF THE ASSOCIAZIONE TESSILE E SALUTE IN FAVOUR OF CONSUMERS' SAFETY.
 
14,30 Health Assessorship - Piedmont Region
Welcome

Franco Piunti - Chairman of the Associazione Tessile e Salute
Introduction and presentation of the 'Sicurtex' project 
 
14,45 Round table: Data bank of the substances used in textile production processes and end products.

Coordinator: Sergio Perticaroli, ISPESL
Participants: Nicolina Mucci - ISPESL, Ida Marcello, Istituto Superiore di Sanità ; Maurizio Colombo - Federchimica; Raffaella Tinghino - Istituto Superiore di Sanità; Gianluigi Discalzi - Occupational medicine, Turin
 
15,45 Paolo Lisi - Dip. of Medicine and Surgery - Policlinico Monteluce, University of Perugia
The National Dermatological Observatory

16,10 Riccardo Innocenti - ISMAC Biella, NRC
        Nicolina Mucci - ISPESL
Eco-toxicological features of textile products: interlaboratory analysis of heavy metal residues
 
16,35 Coffee break 

17,05  Paolo Pigatto - Institute for Dermatological Sciences of the University of Milan
Francesco Castellotti - Federconsumatori-ADOC-ADUSBEF 
The initiatives for protecting textiles consumers: survey on the prevalence of dermatological sensitization cases among the Lombardy population

17,30 Gisberto Paoloni - Regional Agency for Environmental Protection
Instruments for safer footwear products.
 
 

SESSION 2: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS FOR TEXTILE PRODUCTS
 
14,30  Session introduction
Chairman: Silvio Sicardi (Polytechnic of Turin)
Coordinators: Anilkumar Dave (innovation expert); Flavia Chiarotti (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) 
 
14,40  Genevieve Garsoux - Centexbel, Belgium
Barrier textiles for health and safety, from a microbiological point of view: assessment and performance requirements in relation with European standardization
 
15,05  Enzo Berardesca -  San Gallicano Dermatological Institute, IRCCS, Rome- Italy
A new textile for treatment of xerotic skin conditions

15,30 Gianluca Ciardelli - Dep. Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico of Turin - Italy
Non-woven electrospun gelatin-based matrices for biomedical applications. 

15,55  Ubaldo Armato - Dep. of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences, University of Verona Medical School - Italy
Silk fibroin non-woven materials as scaffolds for reticular connective tissue bio-engineering 
 
16,20  Ada Ferri - Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering - Polytechnic of Turin
Dye toxicity modelled by Quantitative-Structure-Property-Relationships 
 
16,45  Coffee break
 
17,05  Antonio Alessandrino - Bioengineering Department, Politecnico of Milan - Italy
In-vitro biodegradation of silk fibroin woven structures as scaffolds for Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction 
 
17,30  Gustaaf Schoukens - Department of Textiles, Ghent University - Belgium
New bioactive textile dressing materials from dibutyrylchitin 
 
17,55  Claudia Vineis - ISMAC section of Biella, NCR
Nanofibres of wool keratin/poly-ethylene-oxide blends for biomedical applications