Network membership

Telethon financially supports only Genetic Biobanks belonging to the Network.
Membership is subject to yearly Telethon Biobank Committee approval. To join the Network, Applicants are requested to send a letter of interest to the Telethon Foundation Scientific Office.
After one-year pre-admission period, required for implementing the Network's procedures, newly approved Biobanks will be admitted into the Network.

Network Organisation

Network Board

• Coordinator and Biobank Director: Mirella Filocamo
• Biobank Directors: Chiara Baldo, Stefano Goldwurm, Alessandra Renieri, Elena Pegoraro, Maurizio Moggio, Marina Mora, Giuseppe Merla, Luisa Politano, Barbara Garavaglia, Luca Sangiorgi

Advisory Board

• Chairperson: Barbara Parodi (Director of the Biological Bank and Cell Factory, IRCCS AOU San Martino - IST - Genova, Italy)
• Members: Deborah Mascalzoni (European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano - EURAC - Bolzano, Italy), Renza Barbon Galluppi (Patient Organisations' representative - Venezia, Italy)

Coordination office

• Lorena Casareto

Current members

• Cell line and DNA Biobank from patients affected by Genetic Diseases

  Director: Mirella Filocamo, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini - Genova

• Galliera Genetic Bank

  Director: Chiara Baldo, E.O. Ospedali Galliera - Genova

• Parkinson Institute Biobank

  Director: Stefano Goldwurm, ASST Centro specialistico ortopedico traumatologico Gaetano Pini - CTO - Milano

• Cell lines and DNA bank of Rett syndrome, X-linked mental retardation and other genetic diseases

  Director: Alessandra Renieri, Università di Siena, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese - Siena

• Neuromuscular Bank of Tissues and DNA samples

  Director: Elena Pegoraro, Università di Padova, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria - Padova

• Bank of muscle tissue, peripheral nerve, DNA and cell culture

  Director: Maurizio Moggio, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Grande Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico - Milano

• Cells, tissues and DNA from patients with Neuromuscular Diseases

  Director: Marina Mora, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta - Milano

• Genomic and Genetic Disorders Biobank

  Director: Giuseppe Merla, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza - San Giovanni Rotondo (FG)

• Naples Human Mutation Gene Biobank

  Director: Luisa Politano, Università degli Studi della Campania e Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “Luigi Vanvitelli” - Napoli

• Cell line and DNA Bank of Genetic Movement Disorders and Mitochondrial Diseases

  Director: Barbara Garavaglia, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta - Milano

• Biobank of Genetic Samples

  Director: Luca Sangiorgi, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli - Bologna (this Biobank was also supported by Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna - Bologna)