On Tuesday, May 27, at 6:00 PM, at the Sala Misom of Fondazione UNIMI, the incubator of the University of Milan that supports the creation and development of innovative start-ups, the second 2025 meeting of the PLEF Scientific Committee will take place.
The speakers of the event, titled “Epigenetics of Well-being: An Integrated and Sustainable Approach between Environment, Behaviors, and Responsible AI,” will be Valentina Bollati, Full Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University of Milan, and Elia Biganzoli, Full Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Milan, Guest Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium, and a member of the PLEF Scientific Committee.
Professor Valentina Bollati, an expert in environmental epigenetics, and Professor Elia Biganzoli, an expert in molecular epidemiology, offer an innovative and responsible vision of well-being, based on an integrated paradigm that goes beyond the disease-centered approach. In this perspective, health is guided by a profound understanding of the environment in which we live and of the interaction with our epigenome, the regulatory system that modulates DNA activity in response to external stimuli.
Promoting healthy environments, meaningful relationships, access to culture and beauty, fair social conditions, and healthy lifestyles is now a priority strategy not only to reduce the burden of disease but also to strengthen the biological and psychosocial resilience of communities. In this scenario, AI, if designed in an inclusive, transparent, and human-centric way, can become a powerful ally in measuring, understanding, and promoting the positive determinants of well-being.
The proposal of Bollati and Biganzoli is that of a culture of biological responsibility, where health is seen as an active, participatory, and buildable balance, the result of the interaction between biology, environment, behaviors, and intelligent technologies. A vision that looks to the future of medicine, prevention, and quality of life with a new perspective: systemic, human, and profoundly transformative.