Fondazione Telethon

Supporting Partner

Telethon Foundation is an Italian non-profit organization that has been supporting bio-medical research on rare and genetic diseases for more than 30 years. The vision of the Telethon Foundation is to translate research results into therapies available to patients. Telethon, besides being an Italian organization, is committed to treat any patient in the world affected by a rare genetic disease and believes that fighting genetic diseases is a worldwide challenge. Over the years Telethon Foundation has invested more than 740 euro million funding over 2800 research projects involving more than 1900 scientists.
Every year Telethon Foundation launch a call for projects in the field of RD research open to all Italian not for profit research centers. Moreover Telethon runs 2 research institutes, the Telethon Institute for Genetic Medicine (TIGEM) and the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR‐Tiget). In 2023 FTELE became the Marketing Authroization Holder of Strimvelis.

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