Doctor Filippo Perbellini

Dr Filippo Perbellini is a group leader in Prof Thomas Thum laboratory at the Institute of Molecular and Translational Therapeutic Strategies (IMTTS) in Hannover Medical School (Germany). He is also an honorary research fellow at Imperial College London. Filippo studied Medical Biotechnologies in Milan University (Italy) and completed his PhD in Cardiovascular Science in 2014 under the supervision of Prof Kieran Clarke, Carolyn Carr and Giuseppe Faggian (Oxford University and Verona University). From 2014 to 2018 Filippo was a post-doctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, in Prof. Cesare M Terracciano’s laboratory, and he was part of the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Centre. His research interests are multicellularity and cardiac tissue physiology with a focus on living myocardial slices preparation and utilization for translational therapeutic strategies.