The research and educational work that have made the Mario Negri Institute famous have been housed in the headquarters in Via Eritrea for over 40 years. Now, however, we have become too cramped to tackle the growing number of issues properly and the laboratories are no longer modern enough to respond to the challenges resulting from developments in biomedicine.
New areas of research such as genetics and proteomics have opened up interesting but unforeseeable opportunities to develop new drugs and research methods. These, however, require adequate space, new equipment and experimental models to reproduce in the laboratory human illnesses that still await therapeutic solutions.
For these reasons the Institute has moved, in June 2007, to a new and modern location.
The new headquarters, in the Bovisa area of Milan, facing the University of Milan Politecnico  (with which the Institute will collaborate to achieve multidisciplinary synergies) will be much bigger than the old building and will be fitted with the latest equipment.
In approximately 25,000 square meters of total surface area we have set up new laboratories to develop new lines of research.
Pharmacogenomic research will be intensified with the aim of finding ways of personalizing therapies with psychotropic, cardiovascular and anti-tumor drugs. New biotechnologies will be applied, particularly new gene therapy vectors and stem cells to treat heart failure.
New models will be developed for the study of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and epilepsy.
The mechanisms of action of new psychotropic drugs will be studied, particularly anti-depressant drugs, with the aim of developing new therapeutic strategies.
The Institute will continue research in its traditional areas of interest, including angiogenesis, metastasis chemotherapy, mother-infant diseases, pathology of the elderly, tumor epidemiology, cardiovascular pharmacology and environmental pollution.
Exchanges with other scientific Institutes will be expanded in Italy and abroad.