The HEAL ITALIA Foundation stands as Italy’s leading innovation hub in Precision Medicine within the national healthcare system.
We develop precision medicine to prevent, delay, and treat serious diseases—shifting from ‘one-size-fits-all’ to personalized care. By uniting top researchers, fostering innovation, and leveraging global collaboration, we deliver targeted, timely therapies for better health outcomes.
Our Mission
•Precision Focus: From reactive to proactive, personalized healthcare
•Disease Targets: Cancer, rare, metabolic & cardiovascular diseases
•Approach: Prevention + AI-driven diagnostics & tailored therapies
•Core Values: Collaboration, excellence, youth, global openness
Our Vision
• Personalized and Precision Medicine represents a turning point in approaching health: no longer a one-size-fits-all solution, but targeted interventions based on the biological, genetic, and environmental characteristics of each individual.
• Research conducted within the HEAL ITALIA network aims not only to make significant progress in diagnosis and treatment but also to generate a concrete impact on the national productive and healthcare system.
• The long-term vision is to fulfill every person’s right to receive effective healthcare services in a homogeneous, personalized, and sustainable manner, respecting privacy and data protection, for the benefit of the entire community.
The Foundation’s numbers
• Established with 24 partners through the EU Recovery Plan-funded project “Health Extended Alliance for Innovative Therapies, Advanced Lab-research and Integrated Approaches of Precision Medicine“.
• Today, it coordinates a multidisciplinary network of 70 entities including Universities, IRCCS (Scientific Institutes for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare), Hospitals and private companies, representing a true national strategic chain for research and application of precision medicine principles in healthcare.
• 610 Researchers.
Research Services and Resources
Comprehensive Technological infrastructure
Innovating precision medicine through advanced technologies.
We develop new models and approaches for precision medicine by leveraging cutting-edge 5.0 technologies:
•Artificial intelligence
•Big data analytics
•Supercomputing systems
Applied across:
✓ Preclinical research
✓ Clinical applications
✓ Translational medicine
Focus areas:
• Oncology
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Metabolic disorders
• Rare diseases
• Neurodegenerative diseases
Network Organization
Heal Italia is organized into 8 highly interconnected thematic networks based on interdisciplinarity. Three headquarters: Palermo, Rome, Milan.
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