Description

An effective co-operation system was set up to direct different skills and technologies into a single entity – Infrastruttura Italiana di Medicina Rigenerativa (Italian Regenerative Medicine Infrastructure) – in order to rapidly optimize new treatment strategies for chronic diseases by repairing, replacing or regenerating organs and tissues damaged by disease or aging. The IRMI Project will favour transfer of research studies performed by major Italian universities into products approved for human use; it will make it possible to treat expensive chronic diseases at considerably lower costs for the national health system and introduce new, more effective and cheaper treatments into clinical practice. This infrastructure has been set up to start an entirely Italian specialization process in regenerative medicine at a European and international level by enhancing biobanking and cellular manipulation infrastructures.