Created in 2008
Endowment Fund of $3 million
Tenured Title Holder: Dr. Pasquale Ferraro
Amount remaining to be funded: $500 000
Partners: Alfonso Minicozzi and family, The thoracic Surgery Research Foundation of Montreal and the CHUM Foundation
Our Mission :
- To support lung transplant research activities
- To ensure the growth and development of thoracic surgery in Quebec
- To ensure succession in this domain, mainly through the offering of training grants for young, subspecialty surgeons
- To promote the research and development, both clinical and fundamental, towards the preservation of the lungs and post- transplant pulmonary edema