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Elisa Di PasqualeResearcherBiographyElisa Di Pasquale graduated in Medical Biotechnology in 2002 and received her PhD in Biotechnologies applied to Medical Sciences at the University of Milan in 2005. Following a post-doctoral training at the Rockefeller University (New York, USA) in the Laboratory of Molecular Vertebrate Embryology, where she focused her studies on the role of TGF Beta/BMP signalling pathway in early embryo specification and embryonic stem cells maintenance and differentiation, she is now tenured researcher at the Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB-UOS of Milan) of the National Research Council of Italy in Milan. She also is the responsible of the iPSC Research Group at Humanitas Research Hospital in the Department of Cardiovascular Research (Rozzano, Milan). She has years of experience in stem cell biology and investigation of the mechanisms of human genetic diseases. Within the last 10 years her research has been mainly devoted to the understanding of the molecular basis of cardiac diseases, either inherited or acquired, and heart development through the study of human cardiac cells generated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) technology. The ultimate goal of her research is to boost the development of effective therapies for patients suffering from heart pathologies. In BIORECAR project, Elisa deals with the functional characterization of induced cardiomyocytes in vitro. In addition, she is responsible for preclinical trials in mouse model. CNR-Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB)-UOS of Milan |