# Fondazione AIRC per la ricerca sul cancro

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## TL;DR

Italy's main charitable funder of cancer research, supporting thousands of investigators at IEO, the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori and universities nationwide.

## Summary

Founded in 1965 by Umberto Veronesi and colleagues, AIRC funds investigator grants, the large multi-centre 5x1000 programmes, fellowships and start-up grants, and is the largest non-governmental funder of cancer research in Italy. It has supported the Milan groups behind breast-conserving surgery, sentinel node biopsy and the molecular oncology of leukaemia, and continues to fund immunotherapy, metastasis and early-detection programmes. AIRC's public campaigns (Oranges for Health, Azaleas for Research) are a national fixture, and its FIRC-Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Milan is a dedicated research institute.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: AIRC; Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro
- City: Milan, IT
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.airc.it

## Sources

- AIRC: https://www.airc.it

## Connected records

- fronts: [Drug Discovery Platforms](https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/)
- companies: [GIMEMA](https://onco.cc/companies/gimema/)
- institutions: [FAVO, Italian Federation of Voluntary Associations in Oncology](https://onco.cc/institutions/favo/), [Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori](https://onco.cc/institutions/int-milan/), [IEO (European Institute of Oncology)](https://onco.cc/institutions/ieo-milan/), [Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli](https://onco.cc/institutions/gemelli/)
- people: [Alberto Bardelli](https://onco.cc/people/alberto-bardelli/), [Andrea Sironi](https://onco.cc/people/andrea-sironi/), [Giuseppe Curigliano](https://onco.cc/people/giuseppe-curigliano/), [Pier Giuseppe Pelicci](https://onco.cc/people/pier-giuseppe-pelicci/)
- bottlenecks: [Funding follows fashion, not burden](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/)

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