“Italy’s focus on biotechnologyshows our aspiration to play a leading role internationally in developing solutions to major global health challenges. In this regard, the relationship with the United States is of strategic importance for Italy: it was here in Washington that, just a few weeks ago, the interim report on the Working Group for the Internationalization of Biotechnology Industries was presented.”

These were the words of the Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, during an evening dedicated to biotechnology, hosted yesterday at Villa Firenze in Washington on the occasion of the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit.