Science Park Raf SpA, established in 1992, is a company fully owned by the San Raffaele del Monte Tabor Foundation, acting as the interface between the Foundation and the business community in the life science sector (pharma groups, biotech companies, food and cosmetic industries) as well as merchant banks and venture capitalists.

The mission of Science Park Raf SpA is to create value from know-how, intellectual property, human resources and research facilities available within the San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park of the Foundation, which includes the San Raffaele Hospital (the most renowned Italian hospital, with 1400 beds, around 250 clinical trials per year), the San Raffaele Scientific Institute (DIBIT), one of the biggest in Europe with around 500 research scientists, 666 publications and an impact factor of 3412 in 2006, and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, offering a medical school with residency programs and PhD courses in Molecular Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Biology and faculties of Psychology and Philosophy.

Science Park Raf SpA headquarters are located within the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, in the eastern side of Milan, well connected to downtown via an internal underground metro station, to the motorway that surrounds the city, close to the Milan Linate International airport, with an internal heliport. The San Raffaele site is visited by 20.000 persons per day.

The company’s business activities are:
1. Intellectual property management and technology transfer
2. Investments in start up companies
3. Investments in research and development projects in collaboration with VC firms
4. Management of internal laboratories located to tenants (pharma and biotech companies) and start up companies
5. Organization of scientific congresses and conferences
6. Development of science parks and related initiatives in cooperation with other research centres, pharma and biotech companies, venture capitalists and financial institutions, local governments