FIRC - Italian Foundation for Cancer Research

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Today, the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC) represents, together with AIRC, the main private subject engaged in financing cancer research in Italy, covering 40% of the total expense.

In Italy, during the latest decades, many crucial developments were attained in the field of cancer research thanks to the bequests - and to the resulting donations and inheritances - received by the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research.

FIRC was established in 1997 by the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC). FIRC and AIRC share the same goal: to fund cancer research at all levels and throughout Italy. To date, the Foundation has provided around 191 million euro in funding.

Why did the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research create IFOM?

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In view of the expanding possibilities offered by molecular oncology, in 1998 FIRC decided to play a leading role in cancer research, with the creation, in Milan, of a specific Research Institute: IFOM - the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, thereby giving a clear response to the pressing needs expressed by the world of Research.

In addition to being the driving force behind the setting up of IFOM, the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research, over the years has also borne almost all the funding costs, with a total amount spent to date of 107 million euro.