About
Vision
To cure (becoming thalassemia free,so no more transfusions) with Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) beta thalassemia major children, especially the ones without a matching donor,using the mother as haploidentical donor.
Founders
Dr. Pietro Sodani, Co-founder & Scientific Coordinator
Eugenio La Mesa, Co-founder & Chairman
Scientific Advisor
Prof. Guido Lucarelli
He is the worldwide authority in BMT for Thalassemia,and he is Cure Thalassemia scientific advisor.
Hematologist,from 2003 to 2015 director of the Transplant Program of IME’s transplant unit at the Tor Vergata General Hospital,has a long history of clinical-scientific experience in the field of BMT,starting with the FHCRSC in Seattle. He has performed more than 1,500 BMT for malignant blood disorders and thalassemia. He has published more than 292 scientific papers on BMT and Thalassemia.
He is author of the chapter on BMT for thalassemia in In the book “Bone marrow transplantation” of the Nobel Prize Donnall Thomas.
To cure (becoming thalassemia free,so no more transfusions) with Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) beta thalassemia major children, especially the ones without a matching donor,using the mother as haploidentical donor.
Founders
Dr. Pietro Sodani, Co-founder & Scientific Coordinator
Eugenio La Mesa, Co-founder & Chairman
Scientific Advisor
Prof. Guido Lucarelli
He is the worldwide authority in BMT for Thalassemia,and he is Cure Thalassemia scientific advisor.
Hematologist,from 2003 to 2015 director of the Transplant Program of IME’s transplant unit at the Tor Vergata General Hospital,has a long history of clinical-scientific experience in the field of BMT,starting with the FHCRSC in Seattle. He has performed more than 1,500 BMT for malignant blood disorders and thalassemia. He has published more than 292 scientific papers on BMT and Thalassemia.
He is author of the chapter on BMT for thalassemia in In the book “Bone marrow transplantation” of the Nobel Prize Donnall Thomas.