{"id":51815,"date":"2020-03-12T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=51815"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:47:05","slug":"bulgari-donates-money-to-drive-coronavirus-vaccine-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/bulgari-donates-money-to-drive-coronavirus-vaccine-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgari donates money to drive coronavirus vaccine developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luxury watch and jewellery brand Bulgari has donated money to an Italian hospital to help find a vaccine to combat coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Italy has been badly impacted, and at present is in lock-down, the Roman brand has made a major donation to the Research Department of the Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>There,\u00a0three researchers \u2013\u00a0Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Francesca Colavita and Concetta Castilletti \u2013\u00a0have managed to successfully isolate the virus in under 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgari\u2019s donation has allowed the purchase of a state-of-the-art microscopic image acquisition system, which will be fundamental in the development of an effective vaccination against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are honoured by the donation of Bulgari which will allow us to strengthen research on the developments of COVID-19 in such a delicate moment,\u201d says Marta Branca, general manager of Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital. \u201cI thank, in particular the CEO, Jean-Christophe Babin, for his commitment and his availability towards the Institute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are conscious that the donation is a first small drop in the ocean of research which has to be conducted, but thanks to the wonderful people who are working on it day and night with incredible optimism, we are sure that in the weeks to come, we will make giant\u00a0steps to contain first and then eradicate COVID-19, not only from Italy, but from the rest of the world,\u201d CEO of Bvlgari, Jean-Christophe Babin, remarks.<\/p>\n<p>On March 6, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held as the Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital took delivery of the microscope.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by Bulgari\u2019s chief executive officer, Jean-Christophe Babin, and executive vice president of sales &amp; retail, Lelio Gavazza.<\/p>\n<p><em>PHOTO CREDIT: Bulgari Facebook<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The donation has allowed a hospital to purchase a 3D microscope that will aid the prevention and treatment of the COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[924,3022,11013],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=51815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}