THE FOUNDATION’S ACTIVITIES RELATED TO HEALTHCARE
The Magnetto Foundation places great emphasis on the area of health. In particular, the Foundation intends to promote health research and experimentation in the area of cardiovascular diseases, with specific regard to the prevention of stroke.
The Foundation also supports activities and research related to childhood health problems (immunology, diabetes, rare diseases…) and neurodegenerative diseases (ALS, Alzheimer’s).
Therefore, the Foundation’s activities take the form of conducting and supporting targeted projects over time, providing research grants and scholarships, promoting related activities, and organizing conferences and congresses.
RELATED PROJECTS
Regina Margherita Hospital
The Centre of Immunology and Rheumatology of the Regina Margherita Children's Hospital is the Regional Reference Centre for diagnosing and treating primary immunodeficiencies and rheumatological diseases of childhood. Thanks to the contribution of the Magnetto...
ALS research
ALS - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - is a progressive degenerative disease that affects the motor neurons of the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement, impairing limb movement, phonation, and swallowing. ALS attacks roughly 5000 people in...
Stroke Prevention
The Foundation, in collaboration with ASL TO 3, the Alice Piemonte Association of Turin, and the municipal administrations, has been promoting since 2004 in Valle Susa the Stroke Prevention Days, a disease that constitutes the third most frequent cause of death after...
Italian Association for the fight against Neuroblastoma
The Magnetto Foundation has supported the Italian Association for the fight against infantile neuroblastoma for several years, established at the Institute "G. Gaslini" in Genoa at the instigation of some parents who were directly involved and oncologists who treated...