Italy
| Legal status | VERY RESTRICTIVE |
|---|---|
| Key organization | Ministry of Health (Italian) National Bioethics Committee |
| Policy | hESC research is prohibited unless it is specifically aimed at improving the therapeutic and medical condition of the embryo concerned. Derivation of embryonic stem cell lines is prohibited. Embryonic cell import is allowed for research. |
| Legislation | Regulation of Medically Assisted Reproduction, Law No. 40, Article 13 (2004) |
| Legislation Link | http://www.ieb-eib.org/nl/pdf/loi-pma-italie-english.pdf |
| Embryonic stem cell research policy | The opinion of a local ethics committee is required prior to the import of hES cell lines. |
| Research with embryo | Any experimentation on human embryos is expressly prohibits by Law 40/2004. |
| Somatic cell nuclear transfer | Forbidden. |
| Genetic modification or selection | Forbidden. |
| Privacy and data protection | Italian Personal Data Protection Code, Legislative Decree No. 196 of June 30, 2003: http://www.garanteprivacy.it/gar ante/doc.jsp?ID=1030925 |
Projects
- A functional dissection of the genetic circuits selected in Anatomically Modern Humans and inferred from the study of neurodevelopmental disorders
- Designer extracellular matrices to program healthy and diseased cardiac morphogenesis
- Dissecting the crosstalk between metabolism and transcriptional regulation in pluripotent stem cells.
- Dissecting the regulatory logic of cell fate reprogramming through integrative and single cell genomics
- HD-DittoGraph: a digital human Embryonic Stem Cell platform for Huntington’s repeats
- Novel Strategies for Cell-based Neural Reconstruction
- Patient-derived disease modeling as a tool to uncover the molecular pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs)
- Unraveling huntingtin function in cortical and striatal human development
Provider
- Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS
- EURAC Research Institute for Biomedicine
- Fondazione Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza IRCCS
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri
- IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo
- Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS
- Ospedale San Raffaele
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Università degli Studi Magna Graecia di Catanzaro
- University of Brescia
- University of Milan
- University of Padova
- University of Trieste
hESC Cell lines
- (none)
hiPSC Cell lines
- IRFMNi001-A
- UCLi007-A
- CSSi001-A
- CSSi002-A
- CSSi003-A
- CSSi004-A
- CSSi005-A
- CSSi006-A
- IAIi001-A
- IAIi002-A
- IAIi003-A
- IAIi004-A
- IRFMNi002-A
- CSSi007-A
- OSRi004-A
- OSRi005-A
- CSSi008-A
- UMILi001-A
- UMILi002-A
- UMILi003-A
- UMILi004-A
- UMILi005-A
- UMILi006-A
- UMILi007-A
- UMILi008-A
- UMILi010-A
- UMILi011-A
- SAPi002-A
- SAPi003-A
- SAPi004-A
- UNIPDi004-A
- UNIPDi004-B
- UNIPDi005-A
- CSSi011-A