Fondazione Umberto Veronesi

Umberto Veronesi Foundation was founded in 2003 on the initiative of Umberto Veronesi and many other internationally renowned scientists and intellectuals, including 11 Nobel Prize winners, with the aim of promoting excellent scientific research and prevention, health education and science dissemination projects .

The activities of the Foundation renew every day the vision of its founder Umberto Veronesi, a doctor who dedicated his life to developing innovative scientific knowledge to put it at the service of the well-being of his patients and the society in which we live.

The Foundation supports scientific research through the provision of research grants for doctors and researchers and finances very high profile projects that can develop new knowledge and new treatments for oncological diseases; carries out prevention and education campaigns that promote the adoption of healthy and conscious lifestyles, in synergy with schools and with public and private entities in the world of research, information and publishing; organizes international conferences that talk about the future of science and the role that science can have in promoting peace and the well-being of peoples.

Planning and concreteness, passion and constant commitment: these are the "passwords" that have always represented the nature and vocation of our commitment.