foregen is a not-for-profit charitable association founded to promote regenerative medical therapies for adults suffering from genital injuries.
Our foundation
foregen was created in 2010 thanks to donor funds. foregen operates in the United States and Europe. Its head office is in Rome, Italy, where it is a registered charity (Reg. No. 6482, Serie 1T, 2010). See original Founding Documents here. foregen is headed by a board of charitable directors, with participants and donors across both continents and beyond.
Our people
foregen is run purely by volunteers. This permits foregen to direct all the funds it receives towards its substantive projects. In 2010, Mr Vincenzo Aiello became foregen’s President. He is assisted by a Vice-President and an Administrative Council.
Our mission
The majority of foregen‘s work is for males who have suffered physical and psychological damage from the ill-effects of circumcision, an operation usually forcibly imposed upon them unnecessarily as babies without their consent, and for no medical reason. Research has now demonstrated well the functional and sensory losses to the penis when circumcised, as well as the potential for serious psychological damage for those on whom such surgery was imposed by force. Fortunately, regenerative medical techniques now offer a greater possibility than ever to regrow human tissue, and especially dermal tissue, lost in prior trauma. However, those techniques have not, so far, been applied to those who are suffering from an unnecessary circumcision. foregen exists to promote and arrange a clinical trial which will use those techniques to regrow the tissue removed at circumcision, thereby helping to restore normal penile function and sensitivity for those males who desire it, with the help of regenerative medicine.
foregen is not a medical research facility. Nor does it conduct any scientific or medical research, experiments or anything of that kind. Nor will it make any money out of a successful foreskin regeneration therapy. foregen is a charity which acts as a support and lobby group. Its hope is to persuade major biomedical institutes in the developed world to perform clinical trials of foreskin regeneration. It fills a gap which no other charity currently covers. Since foregen‘s foundation, a lot of men have expressed great delight that a charity such as this finally exists – something for which they have been searching for years.
Our work
foregen’s tasks are:
- negotiating with research institutes in the field of regenerative medicine to promote dermal regeneration for the genitally injured;
- organizing research and clinical trials necessary to make regenerative medical applications a reality;
- fund-raising for the clinical trials needed to make regenerative solutions a reality.