A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MIA NERI FOUNDATION
Mia Neri Foundation: organization for raising funds for research for children's cancers
Roma, December, 2018
Dear Friends and Supporters
of the Mia Neri Foundation:
It is a welcome duty to
address myself to you all at the end of this year 2018, to thank you for your
continued support and to inform you on what we have done and what we plan to
do.
Fund raising this year was
good, much from private donations, but also from one bank which supported one
of our research projects, and from the State. In Italy the State allows private
citizens to donate 5x1000 of tax money to charities of their choice. Other
funds were obtained by activities organized or sponsored by the Foundation,
such as sale of small objects and gadgets, sale of tickets for sport events or
musical performances at Christmas and at the end of the school year by students
of the Middle School Nitti, that Mia attended for a few months.
This year, Dr. Agnese
Novelli, a young investigator, concluded her PhD program, supported by the Foundation.
In March of 2019 there will be the formal defense of her dissertation, an event
of great importance for the Foundation, because this is the first project to be
funded after the establishment of the Foundation in 2014. Three other research
projects, supported by the Foundation, are currently underway, two at the
Catholic University School of Medicine,
one at the pediatric hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome. One additional project will
soon start at McGill University in Montreal with a young scientist as principal
investigator.
In the coming year the
Foundation plans on supporting other research projects, according to directions
suggested by the International Scientific Committee that was established last
year. Fund raising will continue along the same lines as in previous years,
hopefully with even better results.
I realize that this report
is very synthetic, but I do not want to take too much of your time. If you have
any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me (giovanni.neri43@gmail.com) or visit the website Mia Neri Foundation.
Once again, a big thank
for your support and the best wishes for the coming Holiday Season. May the New
Year bring you peace, joy, prosperity and good health. May Mia continue to be a
source of inspiration for us all.
Giovanni
Neri
President,
Mia Neri Foundation