Fondazione Telethon Board of Directors chaired by Luca di Montezemolo appoints Ilaria Villa as new Managing Director. Francesca Pasinelli leaves her executive roles but will remain on the Board of Fondazione Telethon.
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Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Telethon: 21 projects funded with 5 million euros for basic research in rare diseases
The best projects of the 2022 call for basic research from all over Italy to study still obscure portions of our genetic heritage have been funded. The collaboration between Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Telethon continues: 21 new basic research projects have been funded for a total of about 5 million euros. The goal of the […]
Margaux discovering the world thanks to gene therapy
She was the first Belgian girl with the rare immunodeficiency ADA-SCID treated with the gene therapy approach developed by Telethon researchers. From the risk of a life of seclusion, she has conquered the possibility of doing whatever she likes.
Gene therapy targeted to the brain: a complex but not impossible challenge
Angela Gritti from the San Raffaele Telethon Institute of Milan talks about the efforts of applying gene therapy to one of the most difficult body organs to access.
Awarded Telethon Farmindustria Prize to three young researchers
Farmindustria and Fondazione Telethon have awarded three prizes of 10,000 euros to young researchers who work in the neonatology field.
Osteopetrosis: new opportunity of treatment thanks to a licensing agreement
SiSaf announces a research collaboration and licensing agreement with the University of L’Aquila for the treatment of the debilitating bone disease, Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis Type 2.