funds

Thanks to the funds raised during the past edition of Just the Woman I am, CUS Torino in partnership with Università degli Studi di Torino e Politecnico di Torino, was able to finance several research projects.

In 2014 some of the funds were used to finance a research fellowship to Dr. Barutello at the molecular biotechnologies department on anti tumoral of maternal immunization against a tumor related antigen and the other were donated to Candiolo Hospital Foundation.

In 2015 the funds raised were used to finance the international workshop “Enabling technologies in 3D cancer organoids”.

In 2016 the funds raised financed 2 research prizes, one for the oncology department (Università degli studi di Torino) and one for the information and automation engeneering department (Politecnico di Torino) for the genomic big data analysis in oncology (with a focus on female cancers). Moreover the funds were used for the organization of the conference “Corri, mangia, vivi sano”.

All the surplus funds were used to finance the second edition of the international scientific workshop “Imaging of cancer dynamics” and the conference “Imaging and Cancer” that took place at the Politecnico di Torino in March 2018.