The Callerio Foundation, a non-profit private organisation, begins in1966 with biological research as its specific institutional target, under the direction of the founder prof. Carlo Callerio. During its
34 years of activity this target has been focused more and more on the research and the characterisation of new drugs active against tumours and their metastases.

The Foundation does not operate alone: aside of the strict co-operation with the University of Trieste and several research Institutions around the world, with the recent activation of LINFA it stated clearly its will to extend those co-operations to any research group sharing its goals, making available its scientific and human resources in order to face in the most rational way a dramatic problem that only a few decades ago was considered as nearly hopeless.