Through agreements with qualified institutions, the Foundation has launched three support services for its research network:
a centralized structure dedicated to the use of animal models (CFaCore), to transfer basic knowledge to preclinical applications, encouraging the development of new strategies for the treatment of the disease;
a service dedicated to the preparation and distribution of primary cultures of respiratory epithelium, to give researchers the possibility of using a cellular model that is as similar as possible to the bronchial epithelium in vivo (Primary Cultures Service);
an online consultation tool (CFDB), which allows a quick and detailed search of all clinical trials in cystic fibrosis.
The CFaCore (Cystic Fibrosis animal Core Facility) service provides a range of expertise, services and infrastructure to enable researchers working on cystic fibrosis studies to use preclinical animal (murine) models of the disease for pathogenetic and therapeutic research.
The Cystic Fibrosis DataBase (CFDB) service has the purpose to describe the state of the art of clinical research in cystic fibrosis (CF) and to provide a general summary of the current findings and of areas that require further studies.
The Service provides the FFC Ricerca network researchers with a collection of primary cell cultures obtained from the CF and non-CF human bronchial epithelial cells, using explanted lungs from patients who have undergone lung transplantation.
