ANSA/ In Milan, the first doctor-engineers in Europe graduate

They are pioneers, the first doctors - engineers in Italy and Europe: they are the students and the female graduates of the first cycle of MedTec School, the course International Degree in Medicine and Surgery and Engineering Biomedica promoted by Humanitas University and Polytechnic of Milan. These are new figures, professionals projected into the future that will also be able to work with intelligence artificial integrating the skills of the doctor and of the engineer. It took place on the campus of Humanitas University the proclamation of 10 new graduates of the summer session that has 37 graduates, in total there will be 42 students who they will complete the six-year journey by 2025. "This degree course is the result of a clear vision and courageous - explained the rector of the Polytechnic Donatella Sciuto -, who was able to anticipate the future by imagining a new way of training professionals able to face the complex challenges of contemporary medicine, in which the technology is never an end in itself but is always a tool for service of the human being". "They are professionals capable of guiding evolution technological rather than undergoing it, preserving the human perspective and the relationship with the patient", added Luigi Maria Terracciano, rector of Humanitas University. The new graduates had a double proclamation, with two separate votes, one in Medicine and one in Engineering. The course MedTec School has 389 students, 58% of whom are women. Foreign students are 17%. Each year the course, which is in English language, offers 100 places, 80 for students EU and 20 non-EU. Among the new graduates there is Luca Menga, 24 years old, who dreams of to increasingly bring new technologies into the healthcare sector. He graduated with a thesis in which he carried out a project research on the interaction of two proteins to counteract the development of breast cancer. "In ten years I would like to have my startup for innovation in the medical field - he explained -. My goal is to engineer life and DNA, a bacterium can be like a little robot and we can direct it against a tumor or a disease, use it as a drug".