The Pezcoller Foundation-SIC – Maria and Giuseppe Merz Fellowship (ceased)

Established in 2020, from Mrs Ida Merz to honor the memory of her grandparents, Maria and Giuseppe Merz

  • to support on a competitive basis a young Italian researcher
  • for annual cancer research projects, renewable for a second year, carried out in an Italian Institute
  • in collaboration for selection and organizational activities, with the Italian Cancer Society (SIC)


The recipient of the Pezcoller Foundation – SIC – Maria and Giuseppe Merz Fellowship 2021-2022 is

– Dr. Roberto Cuttano, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (S. Giovanni Rotondo), with the cancer research project:
MicroRNA profiling of lymph node metastases in NSCLC: a new route to unveil molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in metastatic lung cancer”.

Fellowship ceased

Maria and Giuseppe Merz

Il dott. Roberto Cuttano, vincitore della Borsa di Ricerca Pezcoller – SIC – Maria e Giuseppe Merz 2021-2022