Network membership

To join the Network, Applicants are requested to send a letter of interest to the Fondazione Telethon Scientific Office.

Fondazione Telethon will support newly approved biobanks for their integration into the TNGB platform and provide them with the biobank database software. Once admitted, new entries shall adhere to the Network Charter and implement TNGB forms and procedures.

Network Organisation

Network Board

• Coordinator and Biobank Director: Luca Sangiorgi
• Biobank Directors: Mirella Filocamo, Domenico Coviello, Roberto Cilia, Alessandra Renieri, Elena Pegoraro, Monica Sciacco, Marina Mora, Giuseppe Merla, Luisa Politano, Barbara Garavaglia

Advisory Board

• Simona Borroni, Gruppo Famiglie Dravet Associazione Onlus
• Georges Dagher, French Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
• Deborah Mascalzoni, European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano - EURAC
• Maurizio Scarpa, Centre for Rare Diseases Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken
• Erik Steinfelder, BBMRI-ERIC

Coordination office

• Lorena Casareto, Operations Manager

Current members

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

  Director: Mirella Filocamo, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini - Genova

• Biobank of the Laboratory of Human Genetics

  Director: Domenico Coviello, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini - Genova

• Parkinson Institute Biobank

  Director: Roberto Cilia, 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: Monica Sciacco, 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)