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Viromarkers' factsheet just went online on the IHI website! 
The factsheet was realised by the IHI dissemination unit and intended for wide-range dissemination of our project.
3-4 April - with the participation of all the project partners and of the officer of the IHI program it was held in Rome the Kick-off meeting of VIROMARKERS project. The project has started at the beginning of the year and will last three years.
March 2025 - The KRG-HIS project team has visited the health directorates in Dohok, Erbil and Slemani, where a meeting with the DOH of the area was held (Garmian, Halabja, Raparin). In Erbil has also started the joint activity for the server migration in the Facilities of the Department of Information Technology of the Regional Government, with the collaboration of IPRO and BAO system.
February 2025 - Starts the Project VIROMARKERS (Virus related biomarkers to improve management of chronic conditions), funded by European Commission (call HORIZON-JU-IHI-2024-07). The project, coordinated by Euresist, has 19 European participants and It has an expected cost of around 4.3 million euros and 36 months of duration. I-PRO participates as Affiliated Entity.
 Science of Pandemic, an open debate about the results and the evicdences we have from the Science about what the humanity and the  countries experinced during the Covid pandemic. (the full conference recordings)
December 2024 - Publication of the results of the School Study conducted in the context of the Eucare project. Scientific Research for the community and the citizens. A large panel of experts invited to discuss about what we've learnt and what we may improve.
November 2024 - The 2024 Resistance Report is published on the ARCA website. It is based on the ARCA database data updated to September 2024. The project publishes the report update annually, in order to provide valuable information for clinicians and virologists on the spread of resistance to anti-HIV therapies in Italy.
October 2024 - Bologna - two days of Arca Factory: time for meeting, training and redefinition of data management operations with general involvement of Italian centers. AF2024 was addressed to all clinical centers and virology laboratories involved in the treatment of people with HIV infection and that have collaborated or will potentially collaborate with the ARCA database.
September 2024 - The annual meeting of the EuCare Project was held in Vilnius. The project has reached relevant achievements and it is going to disseminate them in the scientific community. Researchers from three continents have discussed the present and the future of the project, to ensure the sustainability of the initiative and to plan the next developments.
​August 2024 - on July 18th, in Erbil, the KRG-HIS system was presented to an audience of managers and officials of the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government, to define the developments of the project in the next two years. The Minister of Health of the KRG, the Consul General of Italy and the representative of the Agency for Development Cooperation intervened to support the initiative.
July 2024 - On behalf of Eucare project, Francesca Incardona, participated in the  event on “The healthcare I wish”, organized by the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases (SIMIT), hosted by the Italian Ministry of Health in Rome, to discuss the clinical and social aspects of health education and awareness of behaviours with Key public policy stakeholders and scientists.
June 2024 - I-PRO has signed the Manifesto “Businesses for People and Society” of @UNGlobalCompactNetworkItalia.
By signing, we commit to strengthening the role of the social dimension of sustainability in our business strategies, in order to generate long-term value in communities and contribute to the creation of more inclusive, equitable and prosperous societies.
May 2024 - Kurdistan, iraq - in two separate missions in the Region the Memorandum of Understanding between University of Tor vergata and the Ministry of health of Kurdistan was signed, and the health Directorates of the Region were visited to start a new phase of the KRG-HIS Projects, with a two years plan, for the complete integration of the system in the Health administration of the Region.
April 2024 - A refresher meeting on the use and interpretation of the antiretroviral resistance test in clinical practice was held in Albano.  Clinicians and virologists from all over Italy have met to deepen all the scientific aspects of the tests in relation to the new test methods available. ​IPRO manages the storage platform of the files generated by NGS Method adopted by many italians units.
March 2024 - preparation for ARCA Factory 2024 has begun. Many new centers and laboratories are adopting ARCA as a tool for managing clinical and virological data of HIV patients, and young clinicians and virologists are joining the already active centers; Arca Factory 2024 will be an opportunity to meet, train and redefine data management operations, involving as wide an audience as possible.
February 2024 - on 13 and 14 February in Rome, at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the kickoff meeting of the AVITHRAPID project. Euresist partner of the project and IPRO subcontractor for the creation of the eCRF of the Project's clinical trials.
January 2024 - EuCARE and the issue of preparedness on Il Sole 24 Ore.The activities and results achieved after two years of the extensive work done by the whole consortium presented with a special focus placed on the importance of lessons learned in terms of preparedness in the event of a forthcoming pandemic. In this sense, EuCARE has already collected significant data to be able to guide public stakeholders. You can find the article in the edition of Il Sole 24 Ore on newsstands on 20 December 2023.
December 2023 - On the World AIDS Day, Eurosurveillance publishes a paper from the EuResist Network.
The paper’s key messages for public health are strong and timely, as war and related people displacement can rapidly change the HIV epidemics: It is important to perform HIV sequence analysis to observe the spread of new subtypes.
November 2023 - in Lisbon - aside of the Eucare annual project meeting  - it was held  the Joint dialogue on preparedness event: leading experts and Key opinion leaders have joined for an interdisciplinary dialogue with short, provocative talks followed by discussions on Data, Vaccines, Therapies and Non Pharmaceutical Interventions.
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AMS2023 - ARCA Mentor School 2023,
Siena 18-19 September 2023
October 2023 - AMS2023 - Begins the remote collaborative work of the 3 groups formed in Siena, during the initial in-person phase, where on 18th and 19th September started the 2023 edition of the ARCA Mentor School, the biennial training course planned and managed by the Scientific Board of the project with the technical support of IPRO. Forty participant will follow in the next months the activities started in Siena. (photos album)
September 2023 - The Repository for the NGS sequencing data of the HIV-NGS Italian Network, shared thanks to the dbARCA collaboration and to the IPRO technical support, counts more than 800 sequencing data from 19 italian labs. More labs are joining the network, finding a structured, stable and safe solution for their sequencing data.
August 2023 - News from EuCARE Project - Updating the unique library of SARS-CoV-2 virus isolates providing invaluable biological material for research. So far, the EuCARE library of variants accumulated a total of 54 different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The library in https://eucareresearch.eu/activities/laboratory-network/
July 2023 - Iraq, Kurdistan - The data recorded in the KRH-HIS system continues to increase, with more than 10.000 new clinical events recorded. The total number of clinical events is currently over 2.350.000. The most active province is Dohok. These dataare an essential tool for the epidemiology of the Region. The sustainability of the system is demonstrated by the continuous feeding totally managed with local resources.
June 2023 - EuCARE Brocher Workshop 2023
SEMINAR- 19th and 20th June 2023: Data privacy, data property, and data sharing: an interdisciplinary dialogue for post-pandemic transnational research.
A two-day workshop discussing the potential ethical and legal solutions to data access that would make biomedical research possible and sustainable in a post pandemic future.
May 2023 - WeCare for Schools - Eucare meets the Schools, from Italy, Portugal and Mexico. The three events will see the participation of the local authorities, schools' principals, teachers and students from the involved schools, together with scientists from the Eucare project. (Italy invitation)
May 2023 - EduARCAset invited to the HIV Academy course in Palermo, for the presentation of the project which involves the use of Artificial Intelligence tools to search for similar clinical cases in the ARCA database. It is one of the most important initiatives that ARCA is pursuing in 2023, to provide a powerful support tool for Italian clinicians.
April 2023 - the  participated  EEIG - Euresist Network GEIE -  was involved in three partnerships for submissions of projects in Horizon Europe April calls. A great job of scientific collaboration which confirms the integration of Euresist in the European research network, and the commitment in research activity for the next years.​
March 2023 - The collection of survey questionnaires on the HIV sequencing methods used is proceeding throughout Italy with the clinical and virology Units; a project developed during Arca Factory 2022 and implemented over the past few months.
February 2023, Palermo - In the context of the ARCAset project, for the development of a clinical data repository to support an exchange of experiences between clinicians and virologists, with the use of AI techniques, a meeting was held in Palermo on the interpretation of the GRT, and on the evolution of HIV resistance tests.
January 2023 - Five years have passed since IPRO joined the UN Global Comapct. It has been important to involve our organization in the community of the companies aligning strategies and operations with the universal principles of this initiative.We'll keep taking actions that advance societal goals.
December 2022 - The number of clinical events, outpatient visits, hospitalizations, births and deaths recorded in the KRG-HIS system exceeded two million three hundred thousand. The amount of data is able to describe the health conditions of the Region in recent years.​
November 2022 - The Marche Region promotes the participation of schools in the EuCARE project. Collaboration between the project and a regional administration can be very fruitful due to the project's focus on infections in schools and student discomfort.
October 2022 - The EuCARE partners were present in the European Researchers’ night  in Lisbon and Frascati, Rome. The action disseminated the work developed in the context of the EuCARE project through activities directed to the general public,  including the coronavirus fishing game, quizzes, posters, bracelets.
September 2022 - ARCA FACTORY 2022 in Florence - This year the ARCA training event is characterized as a Factory with more than 30 infectious disease specialists and virologists  in three working groups that have elaborated project proposals on the themes given by the  Board. The Groups will continue to work in the coming months to produce results (Surveys, studies, slide kits) in the course of 2023.
July 2022 - IPRO starts three new clinical studies about treatments with dietary supplements. The studies will be conducted in Italian university clinical units, promoted by commercial sponsors.IPRO will support all the activities of the three projects, from the protocol design to the data analysis and report writing.
June 2022 - one of the main daily economical newspapers, in the section dedicated to the school, presents the Eucare project and specifically the Schools project, describing the objectives and the methodology.
June 2022 - Bergamo - ICAR 2022 it's opening, 2 oral presentation and 3 oral poster are about data from the ARCA db; three of the presidents and the abstract coordinator are in the ARCA Board. IPRO has supported the scientific work for the results being to be presented.
May 2022 - The RAI channel dedicated to parliamentary broadcasts (RAI GR PARLAMENTO) broadcast an interview with Francesca Incardona - coordinator of the EUCARE project - on the occasion of the launch of the EUCARE-SCHOOLS study pilot, to present the objectives and characteristics of the study.
May 2022 - Koln, Germany - on 6th and 7th of May is held the 22nd Arevir Meeting, in the context of the EUCARE project. In the meeting the cohort studies of the project, and the data infrastructure, were presented with the status of the ongoing activities.
The school study, that received the first Ethical approvals, was also presented, and the Lolli Methode, on which the study is based.​
March 2022 - In the tragic conditions imposed by war in Europe, scientists unite to keep scientific collaboration alive and to support peace and its reasons together, promote dialogue, condemn war, open the doors to all those who are forced to flee from war or persecution. May science give peace a chance.
January-February 2022 - The eduARCAset training program has started; it is the complementary educational tool supporting the ARCAset initiative, a system for sharing and discussing clinical cases and patients management experiences, with the resource of the ARCA database intelligent searching tools.
December 2021 - This year has shown an extraordinary response by the Kurdistan Region Health system, in terms of usage of the KRG-HIS system for collecting epidemiological data. The data of the outpatients diagnosis rin the year are over 400k. With the Hospital discharges, births and deaths events, the system has collected in the year data about more than half million events.
November 2021 - kick-off meeting of the project EuCARE European Cohorts of Patients and Schools to Advance Response to Epidemics (EuCARE) funded by the EC under HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CORONA-01Coordinated by Euresist Network, 22 primary universities, hosèitals and ICT research centres are already working to provide robust, data driven evidence to deal with SARS-CoV-2 variants and COVID-19 epidemics. See the meeting photo album.
October 2021- In the Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, at the end of September, DGOHs of Slemani and Dohok have been visited by the local and italian project coordinators, in order to agree about the next steps: inlcusion in the system of 30 more units by the end of the year. Were held also meetings with the KRG Department od Information Technology (DIT) and with the Ministry of Agricolture and Water Resources, to define next developments.
September 2021 -  on  13th-14th, in Florence was held AMS2021, the 7th edition of the late-summer school by ARCA. 37 participants and more than 15 speakers and tutors have worked  on 8 research themes, creating the premises for the developments of the themes in the next months. To be again together  has been great. See the AMS2021 photo album.
August 2021 - On July 22th eleven new projects  have been shortlisted by the European Commission for funding worth €120 million to support and enable “urgent research into the coronavirus and its variants”, a statement from Brussels announced. EuResist Network GEIE leads one of the projects: “EuCARE”, on “European Cohorts of Patients and Schools to Advance Response to Epidemics”.
July 2021 - ​From June to July 2021 IPRO has participated the DHIS2 Annual Cconference and has been involved in the first conference on the results of the KRG-HIS system, patronged by the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Region and partcipated by the represantiteves of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the Head of the WHO mission in Iraq.
June 2021 - month for conferences and data exchange - the projects supported by IPRO are going to show the yearly results
May 3rd 2021 - ERBIL - after the meetings of the past week between the KRG-HIS project staff and the management of the Ministry of Health from IT and statistic Department, it has been decided to cooperate to define the best way to certify the COVID19 vaccination status of the Autonomous Region's citizens.

April 1st 2021 - webinar seminar focused on the data about the COVID infection and diffusion in schools, sponsored by EURESIST and McCann health, and supported by IPRO. Data for making that any decision is taken on the basis of scientific evidence.

Roundtable with experts, civil society associations, institutional representatives.​
February 2021 - the KRG-HIS system,  today collecting data about more than 1.100.000 clinical events in the Kurdistan Region, has been moved to a new, more stable and powerful platform in order to facilitate the usage for the growing group of the users and to make faster the responses of the system to the istances of the users, day by day more numerous and frequent, from the growing audience of units adopting the system. (new URL: krg-his.ipro-it.eu ​)
January 2021 - Journal of Medical Internet Research - International Scientific Journal for Medical Research, Information and Communication on the Internet, publishes the paper titled "A Web-Based Application for Complex Health Care Populations: User-Centered Design Approach" about the ABILITA tool, by the project workgroup.
January 2021 - The past year has given extraordinary challenges to the scientific community, and to our capability to overcame the difficulties, the mourning, the necessary limitations requested by the pandemic response. We look forward to reopen the new year with undefeated will to do well our job. 
December 2020 - four new centers started to record diseases surveillance data in DOHOK governatorate (Malta, Bagera, Nazarki, Zawita), e one new center in Halabja governatorate (Wafa Hospital). These are the first centers opened since the pandemic started and it was possible thanks to collaboration and the  efforts of our local staff. 
November 2020 - Results from Arca Mentor School 2019 were published at
ICAR 2020 Digiatl Edition and at
European Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis 2020.
More results are being published and the works on the ARCA FACTORY 2020 themes have already started to be developed
October 2020 - for supporting the health centers in the Kurdistan Region, in the context of the difficulties generated by the COVID pandemic, has been started the recruitment of volunteers available for supporting the continuous monitoring of the diagnoses reported by the HCs. The data about the health conditions are more precious than ever, in these times.
September 2020 - in virtual mode, using the remote learning platform made available by McCann- Vyvamed, was held starting on 28-29 of September, the Arca Factory 2020, sixth edition of the School for Infectious Diseases specialists and Virologists, managed by the ARCA Board. The school keeps going with remote meeting of the working groups, till the conclusions of the started projects.
August 2020  - ​The first Kurdish language video, presenting the KRG-HIS system for the epidemiological surveillance in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Iraq, as part of a training program, was released. The production of these videos is part of the effort of our project to support the Kurdish Staff in the difficulties of the COVID19 pandemic.
July 2020  - ​The first Arabic language video, presenting the KRG-HIS system for the epidemiological surveillance in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Iraq, was released. Other training video in Kurdish and Arabic, as well as English, are foreseen.
June 2020 - The short movie about the management of the COVID emergency by the Kurdistan Regional Government has been produced: it presents a Regional Case in the Middle East. What here available is a video summary of the full movie that is going to be released in the mont of June.
May 2020 - amid the ongoing struggle against the viral pandemic it has been realized and released the first educational video about the KRG-HIS system, the epidemiological surveillance system of the Ministry of Health of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, in Iraq.
April 2020 - IPRO participated together with many other subjects in the Fast Call for proposal by the Italian government for supporting the general practitioners and and the clinicians in assisting their patient from distance, in the limitations given by the Covid emergency status - offering ABILITA as possible support platform.
March 2020 - The Italian outbreak will involve us in a difficult challenge. All the Infectious Diseases Specialists collaborating with us are on the frontline fighting against the virus spreading. Also the Health Information System built involving our know how in the Kurdistan Region will face the epidemic outbreak in the norther Iraq. IPRO will keep to manage and to analyze data at the best of its capability. 
February 2020 - the ABILITA platform has to day more than 250 users; 130 patients, more than 110 parents and caregivers, and more than 40 clinicians/nurses. This community is continuing in giving us feedbacks about possible future developments.
February 2020 - the CARE project is feeding the blog section of the project website, the first interviews and comments are available.
https://www.careresearch.eu/blog/categories/care-consortium
January 2020 - on 27-28 January was held in Moscow the conference organized by the CARE project for sharing the experiences of the common projects between EU and Russia about HIV, HCV and Tubercolosis. The conference was attended by many scientists from Russia and Europe and by representatives of EU  Commission and Russian ministries.
(Conference Programme)
January 2020 - At the end of the second year of prticipation IPRO has submitted the Communication on Progress, confirming its committment in the The world's largest corporate sustainability initiative,  aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals.
December 2019 - After the mission and the visits of November, the toll of the recorded events for the month has overpassed the 50.000 events, the Minister of Health of the Autonomous Region has reaffirmed the strong support of the Cabinet to the KRG Health Information System project. New centres are going to join the system.
November 2019 - Rome - ABILITA, the web platform supporting patients, clinicians and caregivers, developed in the framework of the ABILITA2 project, has been awarded by the Forum PA. A further achieviment for the project developed in association (RTI) with Logica Informatica and Mediamed, funded by the Life2020 - POR FESR LAZIO 2014-2020
October 2019 - ABILITA launches the public website  - for patients, parents, clinicians, care givers - the funded project is closed and now the partners intend to propose the platform as a real support for the community of people dealing with complex pathologies, offering services for the supporting network of the patients.
September 2019 - on 18th and 19th the Arca Mentor School took place in Siena, 42 participants started, in the two days session, the work that will be continued in the next months on the queries proposed by the ARCA Board. Event programme. Images Gallery.
July 2019 - The delegation of the local collaborators of the KRG-DHIS project met HE the Italian Ambassador in Baghdad, HE the Italian Consul in Erbil and the New Minister of Health of the Kurdistan Region Government, Mr. Saman Barzinji 
KRG-DHIS PROJECT OVERVIEW JULY 2019
July 2019 - IPRO was acknowledged as belonging to the Community of Innovators of the Lazio Region, thanks to the development of the LIFE2020: ABILITA2 project and the constant commitment to the introduction of advanced technologies in the field of health management.
June 2019 - Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Iraq - In the summer mission we filmed the activities of the Epidemiological Surveillance Project, with all the local staff, and with the active involvement of the Regional Health Ministry, the Directors,  and the health system personell. These shootings will give us a full documentation of the work.
May 2019 - At 17TH EUROPEAN MEETING ON HIV & HEPATITIS held in Rome, one of the works of the ARCA Study Group won the Ricardo Camacho Award: "Impact of resistance mutations on virological efficacy of DTG-based maintenance two-drug regimens: a cohort study", (Gagliardini R., Rossetti B. et al)
April 2019 - ARCA Board has defined the date and place of the next Arca Mentor School; it will be managed with the support of McCann Complete Health as ECM provider; it will be in September and in Siena as for the previous editions. From May 2019 the inscriptions will be opened.
March 2019 - ABILITA2 enter in the test phase of the abilita platform, conducted by Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, the ASL Rieti, and patients associations caring Alzheimer, Authism, Parenteral Nutrition,  Pader Willi syndrome, deletion of cromosom 22. More associations are going to join the project whose purpose is to integrate the formal networks of the Health and Social services with the informal proximity network of the patients.
February 2019 - Autonomous Region of Kurdistan - Iraq - 10 new health centres joined the Epidemiological Surveillance program KRG-DHIS - the Project Team meet the Kurdistan Minister of Health -  five kurdish students participating a PHd at University of Tor Vergata in Rome join in the project staff.
(Mission Video Diary)
January 2019 - Rome - The consortium of the CARE project has held in Rome the Kick Off meeting, as reported by Sanità24; more than 30 people coming from Europe and Russia were involved, under the coordination of Euresist GEIE and with the Scientific Leadership of the the CHIP, Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections of Copenhagen. 
(This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825673)
December 2018 - The ABILITA2 project is among the initiatives for future developoments presented at the Italy-China week for Science Technology and Innovation; the participating projects were selected from those receiving public funds on the basis of the real interest that the projects may present for possibly international investors. 
November 2018 - Second mission of the year in Iraqi Kurdistan Region, visiting in one week the directorates of health and some medical centres in the three provinces, planning the next implementations of the KRG epidemiological surveillance system and training the local personell  (video) 
October 2018 -  ABILITA2 is going to be presented by the Regione Lazio at the German-Italian Innovation Conference, in Berlin in November 20-21. The ABILITA2 project was selected by the Region, as representative of the Investment Program "Industria 4.0". The event is organised by the Italian Agency for the Foreign Trade (ICE) and by the Italian Embassy in Berlin; it is focused on Life Science, Creativity and Smart mobility.
September 2018 - On 24th and 25th 38 young virologists and clinicians took part in Siena at Virology Knowledge Tank (VIKT2018). Two days with presentation of the open issues by an international panel, discussion and elaboration of next studies and projects proposals. This format of educational workshop joins the existing Arca Mentor School, with the support of Euresist Network GEIE. [VIKT2018video]
August 2018 - The EU Commission funded the Project CARE, coordinated by EURESIST Network GEIE. CARE brings together distinguished scientists and highly representative networks in the European region, including Russia, in the fight against
HIV/TB/HCV.  CARE will produce high-level
research outputs during the two years of the project timeframe.
July 2018 - The KRG-DHIS Project enters in the next three years phase with the selection of the PhD candidates, conducted by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and the first mission in the Kurdistan Region of the 2018, by the Project's Italian staff. Iraq has just held the politic elections and in the Kurdistan Region the elecitons are scheduled  in September.
June 2018 - The first patients were enrolled in the Phase I Study "Novel avenues for the rescue of intellectual disability in Down syndrome", promoted by Department of Translational Science (DISMET) – Naples -, and supported  by I-PRO. The study wants to evaluate safety and tolerability of fluoxetine in a pediatric population with Down syndrome and  the efficacy in ameliorating cognitive performances by measuring improvements of at least one of the hippocampus-connected functions
May 2018 - Cologne (DE) - at the RRZK Building of Cologne University started the first Euresist Mentor School, an on-site intensive session (30 EU participants), with a 9-months remote follow-up phase. EuResist Network proposes the EMS with the aim of training clinicians and virologists and the possibilities of using the EIDB and observational databases in general. EIDB the Euresist Integrated Db collects HIV resistance data of patients from Europe and beyond (>82.000 patients). 
April 2018 - The Company's financial statements for the year 2017 have been filed; the value of production increased significantly compared to 2016 (+ 49%); we have activities and projects in 3 continents (Italy, Europe, Asia and Africa), and as CRO we conduct 2 ongoing Phase 1 studies, plus several Phase 3 studies. 
March 2018 - Iraqi Kurdistan Region: The international flights ban imposed over the kurdish airports in October 2017 has been removed by the Iraqi government and the general operative plan of the next three years operations has been approved by the Italian Cooperation Agency; it is now possible to start with the operations of the KRG-DHIS project, managed by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, for expandig the coverage given by the Pilot Project.
February 2018: The project ABILITA2 is funded by Lazio Region within the Call “Life2020” (POR
FESR Lazio 2014-2020). A Web Platform will be developed targeting Complex Care Populations, living with chronic illness or in areas where the delivery of healthcare services is particularly difficult.  The test phase will involve also Province of Rieti, where earthquake took place in 2016.
January 2018: Ipro was welcomed in the United Nations Global Compact - answering to the  call to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals following the multi-year strategy to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.​
December 2017: the Epidemiological system in the Iraqi Kurdistan overpassed the 300.000 clinical events recorded, IPRO is partner in several projects going to be submitted for funding to international Research funder, and new projects are going to start; we wish times of prosperity and peace for the largest possible number of citizens in the world. We will work for the knowledge of the things.
November 2017 - The Meusix Project first patient was treated at University Federico II Hospital in Naples; The treatment  developed by the Consortium, was produced in the US and checked and validated in EU; the patient is now back to his Country and will be followed for the next three years. The Patients Community has  high expectations in this experimental gene therapy aiming to cure the MPS VI, an highly invalidating and progressive condition.
October 2017 - IPRO was contracted by Italian National Institute of Health  (ISS) to provide all external support services for the implementation and management of the study TROCAR - observational project intending to assess the methods and the procedures adopted by the Italian Emergency Units for the patients admitted with a suspected NSTEMI.
The study will collect and will analyze data of 6.000 patients in 12 Emergency Units in Italy.
AMS: Italy, Siena, 20-21 September 2017 

​ARCA Mentor School 3 – the third edition of the training course was held in Siena and it was attended by Italian young clinicians and virologists expecting to learn how to manage data for their scientific projects. 
The AMS is a collaborative project involving the ARCA scientific Board www.dbarca.net ,  Intramed Communications,  I-PRO and EURESIST Network GEIE. 
arca_programma_20-21sett.pdf
Video AMS2017
August 2017 - the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development has deliberated in August 2017 to fund, toghether with the University of Rome Torvergata and the Kurdistan Health Ministry,  for the next three years, the putting into effect of  the health monitoring information  system in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. The KRG-DHIS system continues his path  - the data collected up to now are over 270.000 health events.
July 2017 - Yaoundé, Cameroon -   Kick off of the cooperation with CIRCB - Centre International de Référence Chantal Biya - Within  the National workshop on HIV test and treat strategy in Camerun, IPRO and Euresist presented the HIV drug resistance database for CIRCB Cameroon.
Also,  the first project meeting has discussed the system architecture. The HIVDR DB for CIRCB will be realised using the DHIS2 system,  which IPRO has gained deep knowledge in.
June 2017 -  time of harvest for the ARCA-AMS Research groups: 6 publications have been presented: 2 posters at 15th EU Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis - 1 poster and 2 Oral Communications at ICAR2017 - 1 poster at National Congress SIV-ISV.
Have been opened the submissions of applications for participating AMS2017 - Siena 20-21 September -. ​
May 2017 - I-PRO starts a collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Autonomous Region of Iraki Kurdistan, about the new website fo the Ministry; it is a free supporting initiative to the Kurdish Administration, in the framework of the existing collaboration. Moreover, I-PRO is going to produce a first analysis  of the huge amount of data collected in one year of operation of the KRG-DHIS system.Paragraph. 
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April 2017 - The Phase I/II  Study in Subjects with Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS VI) Using Adeno-Associated Viral Vector 8 to Deliver the human ARSB gene to Liver, promoted by Fondazione Telethon, with IPRO as partner, is entering in the initial phase of the clinical trial, after more than three years for research, production and testing of the investigtion product for the gene therapy approach proposed. The project is co-funded by the European Commission. 
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Washington D.C., 23-24 March 2017 - IPRO was at the 2017 DHIS 2 SYMPOSIUM presenting the KRG-DHIS project, together with the project coordinator from University of Rome Tor Vergata. The community of the DHIS2 experts could gain a deeper view of the project's achievements and was involved in the possible future developments.

​- Programme
- Presenters
​- Users stories the KRG-DHIS project 
Oslo, Norway - Feb 2017 -  DHIS2 community, coordinated by the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo selected as the User Story of the month our KRG-DHIS Pilot project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, led by the University of Rome Tor Vergata in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and realized by I-PRO and EuResist Network.
DHIS 2 platform is an open source software for reporting, analysis and dissemination of data for all health programs used by more than 40 countries.
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Erbil - Dohuk - Jan 2017 - a delegation of the technical management of the KRG-DHIS project has met the KRG Minister of Health and the Director of Health in Dohuk; three more centres have been included in the system, in Aqrah and in Dinarta and the pediatric Hospital in Dohuk. The KRG representatives call for a continuation of the Italian support to the project and show the enormous effort they are keeping also in the presence of the massive flow of refugees and displaced people. read more >>
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ReadItaly, December 2016
The Meusix European project breaks the news in L'ESPRESSO, Italian large public weekly magazine.
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Erbil, November 2016
​New mission in the three governatorates of the Kurdish Region; New centres joined the project, up to 30 participating sites. Rural health centres were opened in the Zakho Region, in Erbil and Slemani. The event data collected are now more than 150.000. The project personnel give all the support to the Region in these difficult times and we receive gratitude and strong commitment in the project. ​read more >>
Rome, 26-28 October 2016
I-PRO's representatives are at the 3rd edition of Meet In Italy for Life Sciences (MIT4LS2016), an international event designed to boost business, partnering and networking opportunities in the life sciences sector. Projects ABILITA and CaRING are presented to universities and research centers, regional clusters and private companies, coming from different EU countries.  
AMS: Italy, 6-7 October 2016 
ARCA Mentor School 2 – the second edition of the training course will be held in Siena in 6th and 7th of October. 
The AMS is a collaborative project involving the ARCA scientific Board www.dbarca.net , Intramed Communications and I-PRO. Video
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​Kurdistan Region, September 2016
September 2016 – Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The project KRG-DHIS opens a new pilot centre in Halabja, in the southern part of the Region, in the city martyr for the attack with chemical weapons in 1988; the centre is in the Maternity and Pediatric Hospital.  ​read more >>
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​​Kurdistan Region, September 2016
The Pilot Phase of the Project is started. Two new centers are involved, also in the Directorate of Health HALABJA. A new mission is performed by the KRG-DHIS staff (17-22 September). Epidemiological surveillance system has now recorded more than 25000 Disease Events by Pilot Centers (statistics generation: 22 September). The DHIS2 Health Monitoring Information System implemented by I-PRO has involved in Kurdistan: n. 34 kurdish operating users - n. 12 health centers in Erbil, Duhok, Slemani.
May 2016 - IPRO annual report
IPRO has approved and registered the financial statements for the year 2015. The total turnover of the company had a 78% increase from the previous year, net of fixed assets. We all consider this as a recognition of the quality of our work, but also a commitment for 2016: we will improve the quality of our services and the amount of our efforts and of our international relationships. The attention to the scientific merit of the projects will be commensurate with the increased economic value.
Kurdistan Region, April 2016
The KRG-DHIS staff performed a mission visiting the three provinces and all the centres participating in the test phase, checking the performances of the trained local medical doctors. The staff had a meeting with the Health Minister, and with the local directorates and the Italian Cooperation representatives. The Epidemiological surveillance system has already recorded almost 9000 diseases events ad 300 vaccinations.  New centres are going to be activated in the test phase. ​read more >>
Europe, March 2016
EDEN and ECSTATIC grant applications passed to second-stage evaluation. The two EDTCP (European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership) proposals, positively evaluated at the first-stage, have now been submitted to the second-stage. They see the participation of I-PRO in partnership with KNUST (Ghana), KI (SE), UniSiena (IT), IDI (Uganda), BNI (DE), Arsi University (Ethiopia), University of Liverpool (UK), Cavidi (SE), UniKoeln (DE), EuResist Network, CREA (IT), HHU (DE), MPI (DE).
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Brussels, February 2016
The European Commission delivered the Seal of Excellence for the project PINGURO, submitted by I-PRO under the Horizon 2020’s SME instrument phase 1
call H2020-SMEInst-2014-2015 (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015) in the area of Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme. Following evaluation by an international panel of independent experts, PINGURO was successful in a highly competitive evaluation process, as an innovative project proposal. Download available here. 
Dohuk 27 February 2016 - Kurdistan Region

Presenting the public health system in the framework of the KRG-DHIS project, performing the project initiation visits. read more >>

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Washington D.C., 22-23 February 2016
I-PRO representatives are at the "DHIS 2 FOR INGO’S SYMPOSIUM 2016”, that is held on 22-23 February at the Kellogg Conference Hotel in Washington D.C. It is an opportunity for participants to learn about the development roadmap of the software, to meet the development team and to know use-cases that have adopted DHIS2 in creative ways to solve iNGO data management challenge. ​read more >>
Naples, January 2016 
I-PRO was appointed to support innovative research into the use of fluoxetine in pediatric patients, suffering from Down syndrome.
The trial is being launched and the first patients will be enrolled in the coming weeks in the Unit of Pediatrics, University of Naples Federico II. (Corriere Salute)

Year 2015

​Kurdistan Region, 22-26 November 2015
In the framework of the Pilot project funded by the Kurdistan Regional Government and by the Italian Cooperation, coordinated by the University of Tor Vergata, the Italian Consul, the Kurdish Minister of Health, and all the directorates, gave their support to the first training session about the District Health Information System and ICD 10, implemented with the participation of ​​IPRO (Diaries of the training days at linkedinIPRO / File) ​read more >>
Rome, 15-18 September 2015
I-PRO supported the management and realized  the website of the ESBP2015 - 8th European Symposium on Biopolymers - hosted by the Department of Chemistry, University of Rome, LA SAPIENZA, and opened in the Museum of Classical Art, of the university museums complex. Visit the website ​ www.esbp2015.org 

ARCA MENTOR SCHOOL ||  siena, 28-29 maY 2015

I-PRO organized the first edition of ARCA Mentor School: the training course dedicated to clinicians and investigators that prepared them in using the ARCA database and other similar DBs.  Participants learned how to enhance the data and how to write queries in order to get useful answers to the most relevant clinical questions related to chronic infections such as HIV, HBV and HCV. The course was registered on the site of AGENAS for CME accreditation. > Download the programme 
​I-PRO received the European Commission's Seal of Excellence for "PINGURO".
I-PRO is certified UNI EN ISO 9001-2015 for the design and distribution of services in Continuous Medical Education (CME) and clinical research for pharmaceutical companies (CRO).
I-PRO is registered in the list of the National Research MIUR (Ministry of University Education and Research).
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The computerworld honors program LAUREATE for EURESIST PROJECT

EuResist developed a drug interaction modeling tool that lets users predict the success rate and impact on virus evolution of various drug combinations via an online portal.

i-PRO OUTCOMES

ABILITA
​Mobile App dedicated to children with disabilities
​ KRG-DHIS
Kurdistan System of Health monitoring and surveillance
ARCA
​Database for Antiretroviral Resistance Cohort Analysis
RARE
​Mobile App dedicated to people with rare diseases