Thanks to the long-lasting collaboration and friendship between Alessandro Laviano of the Department of Translational and Precision Medicine and Homing Pan of the Zhejiang University of Hangzhou, the Chinese university donated 50,000 surgical masks to the COVID-19 operating unit of the Policlinico Umberto I, hospital of Sapienza University of Rome, coordinated by Claudio Mastroianni of the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases.

The donation comes from the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology the President of which is Doctor Hongming Pan.

This tangible solidarity action demonstrates, once more, how the internationalisation of research, which is one of the main goals of Sapienza University, can immediately benefit the scientific community and the patients.