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University of Genoa

The University of Genoa was founded in 1471 and has approximately 40,000 students across eleven faculties, including 53 research departments.

The Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine at the Advanced Biotechnology Centre of the National Cancer Research Institute at the University of Genoa is hosted by St Martin’s Hospital, one of the largest in Europe.

UNIGE has been a leader in stem cell therapies for several years. The team was the first in Europe to treat burned patients with epidermis cultured in vitro from a small biopsy of the patient skin, the first in the world to reconstitute the corneal epithelium using the patient’s own limbal stem cells, and the first in the world to repair a long bone defect with a porous ceramic loaded with mesenchymal stem cells derived from the patient’s bone marrow. Current research is focused on repair of skeletal tissues (bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments) both in humans and in large animals such as race horses.

The team at UNIGE is led by Professor Ranieri Cancedda. Professor Cancedda has over 200 publications, has given keynote speeches at numerous international conferences, is a past president of the European Tissue Engineering Society and vice-President of the Tissue Engineering Society International. He holds several patents in the cell biology area.

 


Chiara Gentili Ph.D is a senior researcher of Regenerative Medicine laboratory of University of Genoa (UNIGE) Italy and is UNIGE’s senior researcher dedicated to PurStem. She has particular expertise in isolation, culture and differentiation of human adult stem cell from different tissues (bone marrow, fat, amniotic fluid and cordon blood). Present research is focused on repair of skeletal tissues using stem cells.

 

UNIGE in PurStem
UNIGE is involved in all the scientific work carried out in PurStem, and provides expert input and collaboration to the other project partners. A particular focus will be to lead work which establishes the in-vivo osteogenic (bone forming) capacity of stem cells cultured within the PurStem project.