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🌵 Since 2023 · Social Club ETS ✓ 7 mini-grants funded · €20,700 ✓ 100% to research

Sport that rewards those who study lung cancer.

Since 2023 we turn races and sporting events into mini-grants for young oncologists under 40.

You don't have to be an athlete. You just have to be there — for those who are fighting.

The proof
100% to research. Every euro bound by ETS statute to a mini-grant.
Meritocratic selection via an independent Scientific Committee · early-career oncologists on lung carcinoma.
€20,700 in 2 years and 2 calls · 3×€2,900 (2024) + 4×€3,000 (2025) → next goal: the 8th researcher
7
Funded oncologists
€20.700
disbursed
6
centres
500+
athletes
⚡ The engine of our funds

Upcoming events

Race registrations are the main source of the mini-grants: every bib becomes research.

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Oxygen Swim Cup 2026 22 NOV 2026
registration → research

Oxygen Swim Cup 2026

📍 Centro Sportivo Le Colline, Via Fontanile del Piscaro 36, 00044 Frascati (Rome), Italy

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Run Rome The Marathon 2027 — Run with Strongers 11–14 MAR 2027
registration → research

Run Rome The Marathon 2027 — Run with Strongers

📍 Rome — Imperial Forums / Circus Maximus

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A researcher you funded
Stratifying response to immunotherapy in NSCLC via cfDNA methylation and ISR transcripts
— Dr. Marco Filetti · cfDNA-NSCLC · Biomarkers · Funded by Strongers

How you can be there

Four ways to turn your gesture into research.

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Join the team

Rome Marathon, Oxygen Swim Cup, Triathlon, Spartan, Padel. Every event is one more grant for research.

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Support research

Your 5x1000, donation or sponsorship directly funds early-career oncologists.

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Apply for a grant

Annual call for young oncologists (≤40 yo). €3,000 mini-grants for professional growth in lung cancer research (NSCLC).

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Become a Partner

3 tiers (Ecosystem, Research, Hybrid) to integrate your company into the Strongers model. Employees train, research advances.

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The team

The jersey of those who won’t just watch

The Strongers team is the community of people touched by lung cancer who choose to be part of it. If this illness has touched your life, there’s a place for you — in whatever way feels right.

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The 7 researchers we've funded

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From the magazine

What Strongers does, told

Events, funded research and how the money is used: the articles we picked to show where your support goes.

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Research

Awards 2025: 4 researchers, €12,000, an evening at CSV Lazio

Four oncology researchers, €12,000 in funding, and a celebration evening at CSV Lazio. Strongers' Awards 2025 show how sport can turn into r...

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Events

Oxygen Swim Cup: the swim race that funds research

The Oxygen Swim Cup is the event where swimming becomes research. Strongers Social Club ETS turns every race into concrete funding for oncol...

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Impact

How our model works: from sport to research

Strongers turns the passion for sport into concrete funding for cancer research. Discover how our innovative model blends athletic activity...

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It costs you nothing

Turn your donation into research

€10 = a week of open-access publications
€20 = a conference fee for a young oncologist
€3.000 = a whole mini-grant, a year of growth
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