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The Biotechnology Foundation of Turin, in Italy, is a non-profit organisation established for the purpose of enhancing the development of biotechnology and the public appreciation of its role in the modern society. The Piedmont Regional Institution, Valle D'Aosta Regional Institution, FIAT, San Paolo Bank founded it in 1992.

Our board of directors includes two members from each founding institutions and a President chosen within the international scientific community; presently, the President is Professor Lorenzo Silengo, also director of the Biotechnology Faculty of the Turin University and of the Biotechnological Park of Canavese, in Ivrea.

The Scientific Committee is renewed every two years; it includes university professors, managers and experts in biotechnology connected fields. It technically supervises content and development of the activities.

The inception of the Foundation was the development of knowledge, the improvement of training, the support to scientific research on biotechnology applied to the different fields; i.e. medicine, agriculture, industry, environment, conservation of works of art, etc.

The Biotechnolgy Foundation follows its aims both: organising national and international meetings and conferences, residential courses, seminars, promoting research activities publishing multimedia materials.

Our location, Villa Gualino, is a prestigious villa up the hills overlooking the city of Turin on the Southern Bank of the Po River, about 10 minutes by car or bus from the main railroad station and Turin's major commercial arteries. The governing body of the Piedmont Region owns it, and other institutions have found there their appropriate seat. The sight also offers the convenience of a on-sight conference centre and full support facilities: Villa Gualino provides conference and seminar rooms, outside terraces for informal gatherings, a restaurant and bar, and about sixty modern rooms for single and double occupancy, surrounded by 10 acre recreation park with parking facilities.