Organization and locations

The Mario Negri Institute has four centers (Milan, Bergamo, Ranica (Bg) and Santa Maria Imbaro (Ch)) and employs about 920 people.

In Milan the Institute is made up of 6 departments, comprising Laboratories and operating Units, offices and services. About 470 people work in this location: some were originally part of  the group of 22 that started the Institute in 1963.

The new headquarters in Milan started its activities on June 2007. In approximately 25.000 square meters (the campus measures 42.000 square mt.) new laboratories and offices have been set up, fitted with the latest equipment, in order to develop new lines of research.
The building hosts 2 conference halls (600 places total), 6 meeting rooms (60 places total), a multimedia hall, a computerized library (400 sq. mt.), a residence for foreign researchers and Italian visitors coming to the Institute (33 apartments).

In Bergamo the Institute has two centers: the Laboratori NegriBergamo (3000 square meters) in the specially remodeled Conventino, an 18th century building and, since 1992, the Centro di Ricerche Cliniche per Le Malattie Rare Aldo e Cele Daccò (Center for Clinical Research on Rare Diseases) located in the Villa Camozzi in Ranica, just outside Bergamo. In 2002 on the same campus, the Centro Ricerche Trapianti (Center for Organ Transplant Research), was inaugurated. More than 200 people work in the three Departments of in Bergamo.

The Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Centro di Ricerche Farmacologiche e Biomediche in S. Maria Imbaro, was inaugurated in 1987. There are several separate buildings, totalling 18.000 square meters, including a “Foresteria” providing 40 mini-apartments for young researchers. The Consorzio Mario Negri Sud is divided into two departments and the Centre for Environmental Sciences. About 200 people work here.

Each location houses a Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Memorial Library, kindly donated by the Pfeiffer Foundation. The libraries regularly receive the most important international scientific journals and stock a vast range of monographs, textbooks and manuals, conference proceedings and scientific reports, and are all equipped with data bank computer terminals.