Join us for the distinguished lecture “Drug Development: Historical and Bioethical Aspects” by Professor Luciano Saso on 3 April at 10:00. The lecture will take place at Room A-203, Faculty of Pharmacy, LSMU.
Prof. Luciano Saso is the professor and research coordinator at the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He has been a member of the review panels of many national and international funding agencies and international scientific journals for the last 30 years. Prof. Luciano Saso was a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) for four years (2011–2015) and President of the organisation for eight years (2015–2023). He took over as Secretary General of the UNICA Committee in June 2023. Professor Saso’s publications have been cited more than 22,000 times and his H-index is 74 (Google Scholar)
Professor Luciano Saso was awarded the status of Visiting Professor at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in 2024 for his services to the University, its development, studies, and research.
Excerpt from the introduction by Prof. Luciano Saso: “Drug development is a very complex and capital-intensive procedure that requires many different competences in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, pharmacy, pharmacology, and biotechnology. Many important drugs have been discovered by chance, but good scientists know that, as Louis Pasteur said, ‘chance favours only the prepared mind’. John Newport Langley (1852–1925) and Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) came up with the receptor theory, proposing the use of a method of selection that, for many years (and in some cases still today), has led to the development of effective drugs without any understanding of their mechanism of action.”