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FARE INSIEME CHARITY – Ep. 6 - Fondazione Ricerca Scienze Neurologiche - putting the health of people and their families are at the centre

«The Bellaria Research Centre will focus on translational and neurorehabilitation research»

4/11/2024

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The participated foundation supporting the financing of translational research, i.e. research applying the discoveries made in laboratories directly to patients in order to develop new therapies, was set up in Bologna in 2022. The next project is the Bellaria Research Centre, the regional and national centre of reference for research and rehabilitation concerning neurological diseases that will be built on an upgraded area covering 1.500 sq m at the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna. For FARE INSIEME Charity, Lucrezia Lanzani interviewed Daniele Ravaglia, President of Fondazione Ricerca Scienze Neurologiche

FARE INSIEME CHARITY is the spin-off of the FARE INSIEME project dedicated to the presentation of some onlus and non-profit associations with roots in the area around Bologna, Ferrara and Modena and that carry out extraordinarily important and crucial work for the entire community. Here are some of their stories.

by Lucrezia Lanzani*

“Research: an activity aimed at searching, i.e. finding out, discovering someone or something. The studies and investigations that take place as part of a specific discipline, that experimentally processes and checks the most advanced hypotheses and theories in a specific field.” Fondazione Ricerca Scienze Neurologiche was set up in Bologna in 2022 to support the financing of translational research, i.e. the specific research that applies the discoveries made in laboratories directly to patients in order to develop new therapies especially concerning neurological diseases. The Foundation, which is part of Irccs - Istituto Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna grew and, at the end of 2023, it took on the current governance, intensifying its dissemination and fund-raising activities to improving and expanding the hospital’s research possibilities. With a view to maintaining the health of people and their families at the centre of our activities, the Foundation focuses on the development of projects aimed at preventing the onset of diseases and at improving the quality of life of people dealing with neurological diseases in various areas of their lives.

The most important challenge is the setting up of the Bellaria Research Centre, a state-of-the-art facility that will be built on an upgraded area covering 1,500 sq m in Wing A of the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna, which will deal with translational research and aims at becoming a point of reference on an Italian and national level for the research and rehabilitation of neurological diseases.

“Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and ALS are the cause of 34% of deaths due to disease, and are invasive for both patients and their families. We believe that, thanks to scientific research, it will soon be possible to also prevent and cure neurological diseases. In the meantime, we are working assiduously so that all those affected by a disease of the nervous system can improve their quality of life and that of their families. In the new research wing, we will build locations to make treatments more effective including five gyms, specialist institutes, rehabilitation laboratories and quality assistance,” explains Daniele Ravaglia, the President of the Foundation since 2023. In order to complete the project, an investment of €3.5 million was budgeted, €2.5 million of which coming from the PNRR. Together with Azienda USL Bologna (a founding member) and other local economic and social actors, the Foundation has undertaken to find €1 million to complete the centre.

“The economic support comes from companies and entrepreneurs, that become supporters wanting to invest in our project. Research is under-financed in Italy and the medium to small enterprise system does not structurally have enough resources available for investment. We have therefore thought of combining private and public resources which, under the name of Fondazione Ricerca Scienze Neurologiche, will help us reach our primary objective by March 2025, we hope,” adds Daniele Ravaglia. The funds are also used to support the MusicArte project to humanise treatments thanks to courses in art, music and dancing that patients and families can take part in with the assistance of healthcare professionals and artists. In addition, projections with augmented reality visors will also be organized to enable patients to experiment extremely-suggestive immersive realities. “That is why we needed to find and train volunteers to work alongside professionals, carrying out collateral activities that will prove useful for long-term patients,” concludes the President of Fondazione Ricerca Scienze Neurologiche. Therefore, thanks to the Foundation and the support of private and public institutions and the community, the Bellaria Research Centre will not only be a treatment centre, but also a concrete symbol of progress in medical research.

*Lucrezia Lanzani is a student at the Steam Emilia High School. She is sixteen years old and has always been interested in social issues. She has been volunteering for three years in different organisations in her community.

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