The Toughest Cancer
Demands The Boldest Research

Meet the Scholarship Winner 2026

Giorgia Alessio, PhD candidate

Inflammation, Immunity & Cancer
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Andrea Ventura lab

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Meet Our Research Partners

We work with promising researchers through grants and fellowships in the United States and Italy, empowering them to drive progress in pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment. These programs are key to our mission of making a meaningful impact on patients’ lives.

Meet the founders of the ITALIAN PANCREATIC CANCER COMMUNITY I-PCC, a network of 28 labs working together to accelerate pancreatic cancer basic and translational research.

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Luigi Leanza
Luigi Leanza

Università di Padova
Padova, Italy

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Loretta L. del Mercato
Loretta L. del Mercato

Nanotechnology Institute - National Research Council (NANOTEC -Cnr)
Lecce, Italy

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Paola Cappello
Paola Cappello

Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin
Turin, Italy

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Giuseppe R. Diaferia
Giuseppe R. Diaferia

Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Center, Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, Portugal

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Paolo E. Porporato
Paolo E. Porporato

Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC), Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences
Turin, Italy

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Alessandro Carrer
Alessandro Carrer

Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine VIMM
Padua, Italy

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Sara Lovisa
Sara Lovisa

Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele and Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano
Rozzano, Italy

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Vincenzo Corbo
Vincenzo Corbo

University of Verona
Verona, Italy

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Miriam Martini
Miriam Martini

Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC), Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences
Turin, Italy

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Federica Marchesi
Federica Marchesi

Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine-University of Milan
Rozzano, Italy

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Elisa Giovannetti
Elisa Giovannetti

Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza (FPS) and VU University Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam (CCA)
Pisa, Italy and Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Carmine Carbone
Carmine Carbone

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS
Rome, Italy

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Enza Lonardo
Enza Lonardo

Institute of Genetic and Biophysics (IGB-CNR)
Naples, Italy

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