Gemelli University Hospital

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS (FPG) is the largest private hospital in Italy and a non-profit organization foundation under private law. It was created in 1964 as teaching hospital of the School of Medicine of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) and from 2015 it became an independent legal entity from the University. FPG works together with UCSC, sharing medical staff, education/teaching responsibilities and research purposes under a collaborative framework agreement.  In 2018, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli was recognised by the Italian Ministry of Health as IRCCS (Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico – Institute of Research and Care) for “Personalised Medicine” and “Innovative biotechnologies”. From 2021 until now, FPG has been ranked by the Newsweek as the Best Italian Hospital (ranked 38th at international level).  In June 2021, FPG also became Joint Commission International Accredited Healthcare organisation.

FPG has a total of 1581 beds and cares for approximately 95.000 in-patients each year at the hospital.  The hospital staff includes more than 5,000 employees with about 1000 physicians and more than 2,000 nurses. Every day, the hospital hosts an estimated number of 20,000 people.

In terms of research activity, FPG currently manages more than 110 grants by Competitive Calls for a value of €26 mln and more than 200 non-profit studies from private funders for a value of €27mln.

FPG consists of 8 Departments and 150 Operational Units including, the “Gemelli Science and Technology Park” (G-STeP), which is of particular importance, as it is part of a broad program established by the Scientific Direction aimed at enhancing, connecting and structuring all the research activities that take place in the hospital. G-STeP is a network of services in support of all stages of the development of a scientific research project. G-Step comprises of more than 20 Research Core Facilities that offer research services divided by technological themes and “modus operandi”, which are able to provide specific services with certified quality.

These services are made possible via a G-Step App, through which researchers have direct access to the services to optimize and speed up the development of their projects.

For more information about FPG performance can be found in the “Mission Statements” released annually: https://www.policlinicogemelli.it/en/information/mission-financial-statement/

Role of institution in the project

FPG is involved in WP2 (Engagement and Liaison of Data Providers), WP6 (Federated Data Processing & Analysis) and WP7 (Use cases & Platform Expansion). The institution will contribute to this project as data providers; by providing data processing/analysis solutions; support in the definition of use cases and platform expansion.