Eugenio La Mesa's Blog on Social Business

BMT training of the indian doctors with Prof. Lucarelli and Pietro Sodani in Rome

2 indian doctors have spent 1 week in Rome to be trained on Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) by Prof. Guido Lucarelli (Cure Thalassemia scientific advisor) and Pietro Sodani (Cure Thalassemia co-founder and scientic coordinator):

• Dr. Shailesh Singi (Cure Thalassemia Chief Medical Program Director), now Chief of Department of Hematology at CARE Hospital. 
• Dr Sharat Damodar (Cure Thalassemia scientific advisor), now Head, BMT Unit Narayana Hrudayalaya Multi speciality Hospital & Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center in Bangalore.

They will be in charge of the Cure Thalassemia Narayana Hrudayalaya Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit in Hyderabad, under the guidance and supervision of Prof. Lucarelli and Dr. Sodani.

Research
We also had an interesting dinner together with some friends who are helping Cure Thalassemia in different ways.

During the dinner we started to talk with Sharat Damodar (who works with Dr. Devi Shetty, the founder and CEO of Narayana Hrudayalaya) to sign another agreement to do research together, on these topics

• to improve the results of BMT from match donor
• to improve the results of BMT from mismatched donor
• lower the cost of BMT (like Narayana did for heart surgery)
• find other cures for thalassemia
• BMT for sickle cell

We should go to India in July, both to Hyderabad and to Bangalore, where we will visit Narayana Hrudayalaya (the biggest pediatric heart hospital of the world) and should meet with Dr. Devi Shetty.

I'm very happy, this has been another important step for the Cure Thalassemia project!

I'll talk at the St John's University, case-study for marketing class in the MBA

I have 2 news regarding the St John's University, Rome Campus:

• I'll give a lecture to all the students on Cure Thalassemia and social business
• in the MKT700 Marketing Management class of the MBA Program, I'll give a challenge to the students, and they will have to find the solution, using the MakeSense model. The students will act like a consultancy company for Cure Thalassemia, which is a case study for them.

Thanks a lot to Alessandro Signorini, for me it is an honour and a great opportunity for Cure Thalassemia to have smart young people helping us.

My impressions after the TIF conference on Thalassemia

As I had already wrote, I've been 2 days at the TIF thalassemia conference in Turkey. I've met dozens parents, doctors and patients from many countries:
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco, Palestine, Jourdan, USA, Canada, Australia,Turkey, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Netherlands, UK, Russia, Azerbaijan.

I''ve been there with my friend Stav Melides, a parent of a Thalassemia patient, and former TIF director.

The good news is that most people

• are in favour of Bone Marrow Transplantation,
• like our project to cure thalassemia patients using the social business model of the Nobel Prize Prof. Yunus.

In our indian Cure Thalassemia BMT unit, we plan to attract patiens from many countries of the world.

I'm very happy, this has been another important step.

Welcome "Cure Thalassemia Italia ONLUS"!

Finally, we have created Cure Thalassemia Italia ONLUS, an italian charity whose goal is to support the Cure Thalassemia mission to use the social business model of the Nobel Prize Yunus to do Bone Marrow Transplantation in a financially self sustainable way; another important goal is to improve the research for the cure of thalassemia.

Co-founders
Eugenio La Mesa
Pietro Sodani

Chairman
Eugenio La Mesa

Scientific Coordinator
Pietro Sodani

Scientific Advisor
Prof. Guido Lucarelli

Board of Directors
Eugenio La Mesa, Pietro Sodani, Luca La Mesa

Thanks to all the friends who have helped to reach this goal:
Patrizia Morucci, Stefano Galanti, Valerio Vanghetti, Claudia D'Apruzzo, Flavio Notari, Andrea Vitali and Alessandro Serra Caracciolo.

I'm very happy, it is another important step!

Dr. Singi is doing BMT training with Prof. Lucarelli and Dr. Sodani in Rome

Another important step for the Cure Thalassemia project.

Dr. Shailesh Singi, the Chief Medical Program Director of Cure Thalassemia-Narayana Hrudayalaya Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) unit, is arriving in Rome; he will do intensive BMT training with Prof. Lucarelli (inventor of BMT and Cure Thalassemia scentific advisor) and Dr. Sodani (Cure Thalassemia co-founder and scientific coordinator).

I'm very happy, the dream is becoming true!

 

I'll go to the TIF international conference on Thalassemia

I'll spend 2 days at the TIF thalassemia conference in Turkey; with more than 1,000 participants, it is the most important wordlwide conference on this topic.

I'll meet

• parents
• patients 
• doctors

from all over the world, to have their feedback about Cure Thalassemia and see how we can better serve the Thalassemia community worldwide.

I'll go with my friend Stav Melides, a parent of a Thalassemia patient, and former TIF director.

I'm very happy to go there, and I'll do my best to talk to as many people as possible to fine tune the Social Business "Cure Thalassemia" project, who will soon start doing Bone Marrow Transplantation in India.