Twenty five years ago I received a posdoctoral fellowship from the CRI. This allowed me to get an unvaluable training in the field of cancer immunology that was the start of my scientific career. CRI did not mind the fact that I was a young physician just arrived in the US, and generously funded my research. CRI is the perfect example of a phylantropic organization in the frontier of new knowledge and humankind. I am now a top administrator of one of the largests European Universities and I remain grateful to CRI for their support.