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Nicola Marino

Founder & Director, AEON Foundation
With a medical-scientific background, he conducts scientific research with the Swiss group Women's Brain Project on emerging medical technologies, particularly artificial intelligence algorithms, and in the longevity and digital health field. With consolidated skills also thanks to the research carried out at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute center in Boston in the laboratory directed by Charlotta Lindvall, MD, Ph.D. Nicola is co-author of scientific publications on exponential technologies in medicine and data-driven precision medicine, including a (peer-reviewed) paper in the prestigious npj journal Digital Medicine - Nature. Winner of the Human Machine Interactions Summer School (HMISS) and Heroes for research, thanks to a project on the use of augmented reality and IoT devices in cardiology, Nicola is also a speaker at international events, including two TEDx, Singularity University (Rome) and Florence Health Forum, for which he was the youngest member of the scientific committee for two consecutive years. In March 2019, he co-founded the innovative startup INTECH-Innovative Training Technologies, engaged in developing advanced surgical training systems. Training devices that, on the "phygital" model, mix physical models and digital and computational technologies scientifically validated by the most important international scientific societies to provide high training standards in a decentralized way. Nicola worked as a consultant for the American company, the world leader in health data analysis, Health Catalyst, based in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA). He has also held the role of political consultant on digital health and longevity since 2019, carrying out activities at the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He is a digital health advisor for the publicly traded innovative startup incubator, Digital Magics. Nicola is also involved in scientific journalism, with numerous articles published in international and national newspapers (for example, CFI.co, IlSole24Ore, Corriere Della Sera, Millionaire) as interventions on Rai1, and SkyTG24, to name a few. In March 2020, Forbes Italia nominated Nicola among the "Top 100 under 30", thanks to the research efforts to move surgical training towards a new paradigm driven by emerging technologies, decentralized and democratic. Finally, he is a member of the Scientific Committee of AiSDeT-Italian Association of Digital Health and Telemedicine and Head of the Department of Digital Health of the association in defense of consumers Consumerism.