The enrolment phase of the Moli-sani Study was conducted at the Research Laboratories of the Catholic University in Campobasso (Italy), the follow up of the Moli-sani cohort is being conducted at the Research Unit of Epidemiology and Prevention of the IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy.

Steering Committee: Licia Iacoviello*# (Chairperson), Giovanni de Gaetano*, Maria Benedetta Donati*.

Scientific Secretariat: Chiara Cerletti* (Coordinator), Marialaura Bonaccio*, Americo Bonanni*, Simona Costanzo*°, Amalia De Curtis*, Augusto Di Castelnuovo*, Alessandro Gialluisi*#, Francesco Gianfagna°, Mariarosaria Persichillo*†.

Safety and Ethical Committee: Jos Vermylen (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgio) (Chairperson), Renzo Pegoraro (Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, Roma, Italy), Antonio G. Spagnolo (Catholic University, Roma, Italy).

External Event Adjudicating Committee: Deodato Assanelli (Brescia, Italy), Livia Rago (Campobasso, Italy).

Baseline and Follow-up Data Management: Simona Costanzo*° (Coordinator), Teresa Panzera*.

Biobanking and Clinical Chemistry: Amalia De Curtis* (Coordinator), Sara Magnacca*.

Data Analysis: Augusto Di Castelnuovo* (Coordinator), Marialaura Bonaccio*, Simona Costanzo*°, Alessandro Gialluisi*#, Francesca Bracone*, Giuseppe Di Costanzo*, Simona Esposito*#, Martina Morelli*±, Antonietta Pepe*#, Emilia Ruggiero*#, Anwal Ghulam°, Francesco Gianfagna°, Maria Loreto Muñoz Venegas±, Sukshma Sharma±.

Recruitment Centre: Francesca Bracone* (Coordinator), Fiorella De Rita*, Giuseppe Di Costanzo*.

Communication and Press Office: Americo Bonanni*^.

External Collaboration

Genomics: Nicole Soranzo, Nicola Pirastu, Federica Santonastaso, Edoardo Giacopuzzi, Chiara Chiereghin, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy.

Epigenomics: Danilo Licastro, Simone Del Monego, Area Science Park, Trieste, Italy.

Institutions and Hospitals involved in follow-up activities: Direzione Generale per la Salute – Regione Molise; Azienda Sanitaria Regionale del Molise (ASReM, Italy); Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale del Molise (ARPA Molise, Italy); Molise Dati Spa (Campobasso, Italy); Offices of vital statistics of the Molise R egion. Presidi Ospedalieri ASReM: Ospedale A. Cardarelli -Campobasso, Ospedale F. Veneziale -Isernia, Ospedale San Timoteo -Termoli (CB), Ospedale Ss. Rosario -Venafro (IS), Ospedale Vietri -Larino (CB), Ospedale San Francesco Caracciolo -Agnone (IS); Casa di Cura Villa Maria -Campobasso; Responsible Research Hospital -Campobasso; IRCCS Neuromed -Pozzilli (IS).

 

*Research Unit of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy

#Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University “Giuseppe Degennaro”, Casamassima, Italy

°Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

±Fondazione Veronesi – Piattaforma UMBERTO, Pozzilli, Italy

^ Multimed Comunicazioni, Pozzilli, Italy

†Passed away November 3rd 2025

 

The list of the Moli-sani Study Past Investigators is available at https://www.moli-sani.org/?page_id=173