Interview with Walter Medda, Managing Director, Teva Italy
Mr. Medda, Teva’s Italian history is relatively young, could you describe the main facts that describe Teva presence in Italy? Teva Italia was founded in 1996 and is currently the…
With the objective of reinforcing and expanding basic and clinical research on T1D, in late 2007 a specialized and independent research Institute – denominated Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) – was launched at San Raffaele. DRI is part of the International DRI federation (DRI-NET), which includes 12 other DRI’s around the world. The San Raffaele DRI is composed of six Units of Basic Research and five Groups of Clinical Research.
The overall objective of DRI is to prevent and cure T1D. To achieve this objective, two specific programs are pursued, both of which take advantage of patients and animal models:
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