The Pezcoller Foundation-SIC – Bruna Scrinzi and Andrea Costa De Probizer Fellowships

Established in 2020, from Count Andrea Costa de Probizer to honor the memory of his wife, Bruna Scrinzi

• 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 recipients of the Pezcoller Foundation – SIC – Bruna Scrinzi e Andrea Costa de Probizer Fellowships 2025-2026 are:
– Lucrezia Camicia, CRO Aviano, with the cancer research project: Studying the role of Multimerin-2 in shaping tumor vessel stability to control the chemo/immunotherapy response
– Mattia Colucci, Fondazione IRCSS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (S. Giovanni Rotondo), with the cancer research project: The functional role of EZH2 inactivation in the pathogenesis of HOXA-overexpressing T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Past recipients:
2023-2024
– Beatrice Foglia, University of Torino, with the cancer research project: Oncostatin M and tumor inflammatory signature as prognostic markers of Nash-related HCC
– Luigi Ippolito, University of Firenze, with the cancer research project: Dissecting the lactate-driven  Discoidin Domain Receptor-1 activation in  supporting  prostate cancer cells dissemination

2021-2022
– Lorenzo Castagnoli, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (Milan), with cancer research project: Exploiting the inhibition of CD36 scavenger receptor as new therapeutic target in HER2-positive breast cancer stem cells.
– Elena Daveri, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (Milan), with cancer research project: Myeloid cells featured by dysfunctional lipid traffic as key mediators of gut carcinogenesis.

Last update 25/09/2024