History of the Caprotti and Venosta families

FIRC Research Units, the first initiative of their kind in Italy, are scientific units established, controlled and financed directly by the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC) at the country’s major research facilities.

His commitment and achievements earned my grandfather Guido awards and recognitions, including the appointment as Grand Officer of the Italian Republic (1988), the Gold Medal of Civic Merit (‘Ambrogino d’Oro’) of the Municipality of Milan (1989), and the Gold Medal of the Ministry of Health for civil merits (1990).

In 1997, my grandfather Guido Venosta published a booklet for Scheiwiller, small in format and pages but large in content, in which he explained his history with cancer and AIRC and set out the concepts and hopes that animated his actions.

My grandfather Guido Venosta’s brilliant and precocious intuition, still valid today, was to have been able to identify the need to transfer efficient practices from the world of production to the world of solidarity, and to show how it could be done. A true method, which also inspired specific university teachings.