HSM

IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino

Partner

The IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino (HSM) is the main city Hospital of Genova in Italy. As University Hospital, it includes clinical, and research units tightly connected to the activity of the University of Genova led by Professors. It has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Health as “Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalisation and Health Care” which is the highest certification in Italy for Institutes involved in Health Research. It provides better care and prevention of diseases through basic, translational, and clinical research.
 Fields of research activity include epidemiology, risk factors and primary prevention, cellular, molecular and structural biology, genomics and proteomics, tumour immunology, integrated approaches to cancer therapy. The collection ICLC of HSM has the WIPO International Depositary Authority (IDA) status and is member of the European Culture Collections’ Organisation (ECCO) and World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC). It preserves and distributes human (ca 270) and animal (ca 50) established cell lines and provides quality control services to the scientific community, i.e. mycoplasma check and STR profiling of human cell lines.

Collection:

• Interlab Cell Line Collection (ICLC)

Key people:

• Monica Marchese
• Paola Visconti