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FFC Ricerca launches an initiative to enhance research and accelerate scientific innovation

The Foundation's Research Valorization Initiative has been launched with the aim of identifying and assessing FFC Ricerca's scientific projects in terms of their potential for technology transfer and clinical application.

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23rd CONVENTION OF INVESTIGATORS IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS

The 23rd Convention of the FFC Ricerca will be held in Verona from November 13 to 15, 2025, at the Chamber of Commerce.

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The highlights of the 2024 FFC Ricerca Convention are now online: watch the key moments on our YouTube channel

The highlights of the 2024 Cystic Fibrosis Researchers’ Convention, organized by FFC Ricerca, are now available online on our YouTube channel.

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Webinars on the Research Calls and Research Facilities by the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation

FFC Ricerca organizes three webinars to present the 2025 Research calls and the Research Facilities available to support researchers working in the field of cystic fibrosis (CF).

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Funding Opportunities for Innovative Scientific Projects Now Open

The event is going to be held from 14th to 16th November at the Convention Centre of the Verona Chamber of Commerce and feature the presentations by the PI and partners of the projects active in 2024, as well as the Foundation’s Research Services.

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The programme and the brochure of the 22nd Convention of Investigators in Cystic Fibrosis are now available.

The event is going to be held from 14th to 16th November at the Convention Centre of the Verona Chamber of Commerce and feature the presentations by the PI and partners of the projects active in 2024, as well as the Foundation’s Research Services.

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XXII Convention FFC Ricerca

The 22nd Convention of the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation (FFC Ricerca), a non-profit body recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) as a promoter of scientific research on the disease, will be held in Verona from 14 to 16 November 2024 at the Congress Centre of the Chamber of Commerce, situated in Corso Porta Nuova, near the city center.

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2024 World Cystic Fibrosis Day: FFC Research presents the 17 new research projects to find a cure for all

This year, the FFC Ricerca will support 17 studies that will be launched in September and will contribute to acquiring new insights about the disease and increase the duration and quality of life for all the people with cystic fibrosis (CF)

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FFC Ricerca’s Scientific Committee welcomes its new member

FFC Ricerca’s Scientific Committee (SC) welcomed Dr. Michael Pusch, Research Director at the CNR Biophysics Institute in Genoa and an expert in the field of molecular mechanisms regulating ion transport through channel proteins, in particular those for chloride, and of physiological mechanisms regulating transepithelial transport.

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A research network that once again proves itself solid and increasingly international: 51 projects have been presented at the 2024 FFC Ricerca calls

At midnight yesterday, Wednesday 31st January, the 2024 edition of the calls promoted by the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation for Italian and foreign researchers came to an end.