** History of the institution **
The scientific association ISOPROG (from the acronym of the Italian “Istituto Somatogene per la Oncologia Personalizzata e la Ricerca Onco-Genomica”) was legally established in 2014 as non profit organization for biomedical research and related life sciences applied to human health with major focus on cancer research.
It is officially recognized as non-profit health research organization and enlisted in the Italian registry for non-profit organization (with the “Onlus” acronym) on 2016, replaced more recently by the Italian registry of third sector (non-profit) organizations and companies with social focus and/or operational model (RUNTS registry, operated by the Italian Ministry of Labor).
Its international network is enhanced and enriched since 2017 by the parallel incorporation of a US sister organization (Somatolink Foundation inc., Public benefit Corporation) meant to provide both logistic and synergistic local cooperation with US-based institutional partners.
Since 2016 the network has been pursuing competitive and self-financed research by performing the experimental activities of its researchers in affiliated laboratories at hosting institutions in the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) area, while currently conveying the post-analytic (bench-free) part of the network’s scientific work (focusing mostly computational biology, biostatistics, scientific manuscripts assembly and submissions, etc.) along with administrative support in its Italian headquarters.
The acquired history and scientific leverage make ISOPROG an ideal partner towards consortia-driven initiatives meant to confer proper value and eligibility for ongoing or planned governmental accrediting paths related to research hospital candidates as well to new medicine and/or biomedical related academic courses in the Italian and European extended geographic and regulatory context.
** Team **
Profile of members
Proficiencies, type of expertise and professional activities of members and network
- Academic research (basic & translational – STEM areas)
- R&D (private sector)
- Education and teaching
- Health services
- Bioinformatician and biostatistics
- Advanced laboratory services
- Tech & innovation support and consultancies
Areas (and sub-areas) of research Expertise - Health-related Life Sciences
- Cellular and molecular biology
- Proteins and nucleic acids’ (RNA, DNA) biochemistry
- Computational biology
- Molecular medicine
- Molecular and genomic pathology
- Oncological surgery
- Experimental oncology
- Molecular endocrinology
- Virology
- Pharmacology
- Bioethics
- History of science and medicine
ISOPROG ETS organizational chart for the three-year period 2024-2027
Board of Directors ISOPROG ETS 2024-2027
Presidente:
Scalia Pierluigi
Vice Presidente:
Asaro Salvatore
Direttore USA Network Operations:
Stephen J Williams
BOD 2024-2027:
o Scalia Pierluigi, MD PhD
o Asaro Salvatore, MD
o Williams Stephen J, PhD
o Averna Michele, PhD
o Iachetta Letterio, PhD
o Ing. Lo Presti Giacomo C.
o Mr. Vincenzo Cristaldi