Italia Marittima to support Telethon for scientific research 
Even this year 2013 Italia Marittima S.p.A. is in the front line to help the fund raising in favour of Telethon, which is the major Italian biomedical research foundation.
Our company is supporting the solidarity marathon (from 9 to 15 December 2013) presented on RAI TV channels trough the local agency BNL-BNP Paribas.

Telethon research does not promise miracles, instead it moves towards goals that get closer and closer to achieving cures for genetic disorders.

2477 projects in research fields of 445 different genetic diseases, with a direct investment of more than €394 million and 9386 scientific articles published. These are the numbers that make Telethon an internationally recognized of biomedical research foundation.

It does this by relying on a group of internationally renowned scientists that make up the Telethon medical-scientific Committee, in choosing the worthiest projects. Alongside scientific qualities, the Committee uses another two other important criteria in evaluating proposed projects: their relevance to Telethon's mission, and their closeness to a cure, that is: those projects with a greater possibility of generating information useful to developing or improving a therapy.

Over the years the work of Telethon's researchers has had a notable impact on the understanding of 445 genetic diseases.