Who.
Hello! My name is Gian Paolo Panzica. I am a molecular biologist. I have about thirty years experience in life sciences: genetics and molecular biology, intellectual property and patenting.
My acquired experience in searching and evaluating technical and scientific information has offered me the opportunity to provide advising and consulting services for technology transfer, patents and educational projects in my fields of interest and experience.
What.
I provide advising and consulting from medical and scientific state of the art and background search to dedicated documentation support for educational purposes, lessons, seminars, technology transfer and knowledge transfer.
Recently I started to consider more and more seriously the suggestion from friends and acquaintances working in in the film and media industry: providing scientific advising for films and especially documentaries, which I always have had a keen interest for. So what I once made sporadically and mostly on a friendly basis has then turned in an added area for my activities.
My main areas of interest are: nutrition, nutritional support in oncology, pharmacognosy, ethnology and anthropology, behavioural and cognitive studies, ethology, environmental promotion.
Cross-discipline approach has always received my interest and attention and it is in essence the core idea at the basis of my activity: to translate and share knowledge between different mindsets and cultures, to promote creative solutions by combining viewpoints that would not normally cross their pathway.
What is of paramount importance though is to provide a faithful picture of the state of knowledge in a given field. Not all information around is accessible to you, for many reasons, the easiest one is, you might not even know it’s there. Not all information you can access is really all there is about it. Not all information provided to you by third parties or by your usual sources is independent and impartial. Especially in scientific research, where established truths are often remote or ephemeral chimeras. Especially in health related issues, where information is heavily conditioned under overwhelming interests of commercial and financial nature.
How.
It all starts from an input, your input: what kind of scientific background information you need and for which use. A subject of a documentary or a film, or parts of it having potential need of scientific support. An invention or a technical solution or particular problem for which you seek knowledge of state of the art, or historical background art. An educational project, such as a course or set of lessons. Once your project is clear in your mind (and maybe a chat with us might help you getting there…) an exchange of ideas and concepts related to the project and its scope and area of interest and its intended target, a reasoned and structured search is performed on-line, on the wide web, by different search engines, and/or by entering dedicated data collections (libraries, databases, classifications). Documents are then screened and examined by relevance and listed in a report, or a reasoned report is compiled defining the state of knowledge about your given subject of interest, with documents listed as references. The final document is then shaped to your intended target and according to its form (a subject of a story or a research, background art for intellectual property purposes, line up of arguments for educational projects etc.).
Why.
Well, just because.
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