Our company's roots trace back to 1963 at the Department of Veterinary Physiology, University of Milan. Ugo Basile, the company's founder, was appointed Chief Laboratory Technician for the department in recognition of his expertise in engineering, design, and inventiveness. His skillfulness in creating new apparatus and modifying existing research equipment had become apparent to many researchers at the University, as did the demand for different type of instrumentation from other labs. Mr. Basile was able to bring together expertise on optics, machining, glass blowing, electromagnetic actuators, and other fields to successfully develop novel instruments for new applications. As researchers used his equipment, the results of experiments using "Basile" inventions were published widely; naturally, word of mouth, dependability, reliability, and innovation became the best advertisement for Mr. Basile's novel devices and instruments. His reputation as a skilled craftsman, an expert in technical design, and a clever inventor began to reach an arena far outside his own department; indeed, word was quickly spreading far beyond the academic setting at the University of Milan. Particularly high demand came from pharmaceutical industry researchers, who focused on analgesic drug development and had a great need for Basile's inventions and quickly spread into the academic world for cognition, motor function, memory, respiration and behavioral pharmacology and genetic screening in general. Today Ugo Basile is a worlwide recognized brand with more than 40,000 citations in peer-reviewed papers.