Maurizio Muraca's Biography

Maurizio Muraca, Professor, Università degli Studi di Padova

Maurizio Muraca, MD (Padova), PhD (Leuven) is Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Regenerative Medicine at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of Padova. From 2004 to 2014 he was?Head of Clinical Chemistry and Microbiology and responsible for the Regenerative Medicine research area at the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome. From 1997 to 2000 he coordinated the first clinical study in Italy on the treatment of liver failure with a bioartificial liver as part of an international FDA-approved trial. In 2000 he performed the first clinical hepatocyte transplantation in Europe after a series of studies in large animal models. During the last decade, he investigated the use of extracellular vesicles as therapeutic tool.