Our Structure

Fondazione PRINTO is composed of academic, clinical centres actively engaged in the research and clinical care of children with paediatric rheumatic diseases. PRINTO groups the most esteemed paediatric rheumatology researchers worldwide.

Advisory Council

Provides scientific leadership, study quality assurance, funding strategy, statistical supervision, and publication guidance.

  • President: Prof. Alberto Martini, MD
  • Scientific Director and Vice-President: Prof. Nicolino Ruperto, MD, MPH
  • Counsellors

International Coordinating Centre

Facilitates the flow of logistic and scientific details needed to design, launch and manage multi-centered, multi-national, collaborative studies.

National Coordinating Centres

Facilitates the participation of the greatest number possible of individual centers, and to provide the translation of all the forms to be completed by the parents and/or patients.

Individual Clinical Centres

Constitute the main support structure to obtain a critical mass of data for on-going and future research.

Clinical centres in the world