The Autoimmune Pathologies Association, founded in 1996, is a nonprofit International Association, financed through voluntary donations and which, as a main target, takes care of the patients afflicted by autoimmune diseases. These pathologies are due to an anomalous functioning of the immune system, which deviates its own activity, usually oriented to eliminate extraneous bodies, such as viruses, bacteria and tumourous cells from the human organism, against the human organism itself. The most widespread and invalidating pathologies are multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma.

APAI, Onlus Association, is regulated by an executive council chaired by President Christine Gammon, whose task is the co-ordination of the social and administrative activities; she establishes and makes executive the programs and the objectives estimated in the Constitution, as well.

What is more, the Scientific Committee, an integral part of the Association, provides for the spread of the programs, for the effective start of new projects of research, verifies if the projects can be carried out and if the proponents of the projects of research are competent and it establishes the financial values of the projects. The most important specialists in autoimmunity collaborate in the Scientific Committee.

CHRISTINE GAMMON
President

GENNARO MOCCIA
Presidente Onorario

CARLA FRACCI
Honorary godmother