We are the spinoff of the Italian TERA Foundation, established in 1992 in Novara, Italy. TERA is world-known for its contributions to hadron therapy, a technique aimed at treating solid tumours by irradiating them with beams of hadrons, in particular protons and carbon ions.

With strong links to CERN – the European Laboratory for particle Physics –TERA has given rise to successful offshoots, including the ion therapy National Centre for Oncological Hadron Therapy (CNAO) in Pavia, Italy, where more than 5000 patients have been treated (https://fondazionecnao.it/en/)