The animal-right association "Animal Amnesty" announced a national demonstration in Milan on November 30th, against animal testing, instrumentally called "vivisection".
Aim of the demonstration is to bring the participants in front of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacologic Research in order to demonstrate against its director, the "vivisectionist" Silvio Garattini, as stated in the summoning announcement. This is at first an unacceptable personalization of the controversy, aimed to one of the most internetionally distinguished Italian scientists. Actually, however, it is the whole world of biomedic research to be called into question, as the target of advertising and press campaigns aimed to preventing Italian research from helping patients.
For this reason, we express full solidarity to Silvio Garattini and all the researchers from the "Mario Negri" Institute. Also, as representatives of the world of research, Institutions and media, we are ready to testify, even personally, our support at the Institute on November 30th, since we are aware that by endorsing the reason of research, we also endorse Italian citizens' right to health and the future of the Country.
| Gianluca Vago | Dean of the Università degli Studi of Milan |
| Gianni Bonadonna | President Fondazione Michelangelo |
| Head Physician Fond. IRCCS "Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori" | |
| Elena Cattaneo | Researcher and Senator for life |
| Umberto Ambrosoli | Regional Counselor - Lombardia |
| Francesco Brancati | Scientific Journalist |
| President Unione Nazionale Medico Scientifica di Informazione (UNAMSI) | |
| Roberto Caminiti | Scientific Physician for Information (UNAMSI) |
| Department for Physiology and Pharmacology, Università SAPIENZA of Rome | |
| Marco Cappato | Treasurer of the Associazione Luca Coscioni |
| City Counselor - Milan | |
| Giovanni Caprara | Scientific Journalist – Corriere della Sera |
| President Unione Giornalisti Italiani Scientifici (UGIS) | |
| Luca Carra | Scientific Journalist - Codirector Scienzainrete |
| Francesco Clementi | Coordinatore of the School Commission of the Accademia dei Lincei |
| Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology - Università degli Studi of Milan | |
| Istituto CNR for Neuroscience - Milan | |
| Ferdinando Cornelio | Scientific Director Fondazione Istituto Neurologico ‘C. Besta |
| Maria Antonietta Farina Coscioni | Honorary President Associazione Luca Coscioni |
| Emilia Grazia De Biasi | President Health Commission of the Senate |
| Paolo De Girolamo | President Associazione Italiana per le Scienze degli Animali da Laboratorio (AISAL) |
| Marco Foiani | General Director Istituto Firc di Oncologia Molecolare |
| Filomena Gallo | Secretary dell'Associazione Luca Coscioni |
| Carlo Giovanardi | Senator |
| Giovanni Laviola | Istituto Superiore di Sanità |
| Giorgio Lambertenghi Deliliers | Scientific Director of the Fondazione Matarelli |
| Pia Locatelli | Member of the Parliament |
| Simone Macrì | Istituto Superiore di Sanità |
| Pier Mannuccio Mannucci | Scientific Director Fondazione Ca’ Granda Policlinico |
| Alberto Maspero | Hospital Health Director |
| Alberto Mantovani | Università degli Studi of Milan |
| Scientific Director of the Istituto Clinico Humanitas | |
| Jacopo Meldolesi | Professor Emeritus at the Università Vita-Salute ‘San Raffaele’ |
| Maurizio Mauri | General Director Cerba |
| Marco Pierrotti | Scientific Director of the Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Tumori |
| Pier Giuseppe Pelicci | Scientific Codirector of the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia |
| Giuseppe Remuzzi | President of the Società Internazionale di Nefrologia |
| Roberto Satolli | Scientific Journalist, Director di Zadig |
| Anna Scavuzzo | Group Leader of the Lista Civica per Pisapia Sindaco-Comune Milano |
| Roberto Sitia | Director of the Genetic and Cell Biology Department of the Istituto Scientifico San Raffaele |
| Cristina Tajani | Assessor for Research of the City of Milan |
| Augusto Vitale | Istituto Superiore di Sanità |
