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UPMC

UPMC is a global leader in healthcare, a nonprofit organization that combines excellence in patient care, technological innovation, and a strong commitment to the communities it serves. Headquartered in Pittsburgh and affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC is at the forefront of research, education, and the development of clinical solutions that improve people’s lives.

Each year, UPMC invests nearly $2 billion in programs and services that benefit local communities—more than any other healthcare system in Pennsylvania. With more than 100,000 employees, including 5,000 physicians, UPMC provides specialized care through a network of more than 40 hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities across Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, as well as internationally.

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ARNAS Civico Hospital
The ARNAS Civico, Di Cristina and Benfratelli Hospital in Palermo is one of Southern Italy’s largest and most highly specialized healthcare institutions. For many years, the hospital has played a leading role in the development and implementation of national and regional programs in emergency medicine, organ transplantation, maternal and child healthcare, and oncology. It also carries out teaching and research activities, including in the field of biotechnology. Alongside its clinical and research mission, ARNAS organizes CME courses and professional training programs accredited by the Italian National Commission for Continuing Medical Education.

ARNAS Civico is actively involved in humanitarian healthcare initiatives, providing medical assistance to patients from developing countries in collaboration with major international organizations. The hospital campus hosts the Pediatrics section of the University Department of Maternity and Infant Care, the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Virology, the postgraduate schools of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, and the University of Palermo’s Nursing School.

ARNAS Civico also hosts the Regional Center for Organ Coordination (CCRT) and the “118” Emergency Service for the provinces of Palermo and Trapani.

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Ri.MED
The Ri.MED Foundation, established by the Presidency of the Italian Council of Ministers to encourage the socioeconomic development of Sicily and Southern Italy, is a public-private partnership management model based on a scientific collaboration agreement between the United States of America and Italy.

Ri.MED is a nonprofit foundation developing biomedical and biotechnological translational research approaches, disseminating scientific know-how, training qualified staff in Life Sciences, and establishing and managing resea rch centers and laboratories. Ri.MED is currently involved in the realization in Carini, near Palermo, of the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (BRBC), a research center that will allow Sicily to become a biomedical research hub in the Mediterranean. The Foundation has its registered offices and its computational biology and chemistry laboratories in Palermo. Ri.MED also has biomedical research and regenerative medicine laboratories at ISMETT, and structural biology laboratories at the ATeN Center of the University of Palermo. The Foundation is involved in major projects with various research centers at the University of Pittsburgh.

Ri.MED research integrates traditional R&D with innovative regenerative medicine and tissue engineering; its therapeutic areas of interest include: oncology, neurodegenerative, inflammatory, cardiovascular, infectious, and metabolic diseases, and organ failure.

Thanks to its founding members (that also include the University of Pittsburgh, the Italian National Research Center, and UPMC) and to the strategic partnership with ISMETT, there is a constant exchange of know-how between physicians and researchers, based on a “bench-to-bedside” approach that integrates basic research with preclinical development of new therapies, medical devices, biomarkers, and clinical experimentation, with the goal of finding rapid solutions to improve public health.

In June 2017, the Ri.MED Foundation entered the governance of IRCCS ISMETT.

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