Doctor Edoardo Bertero

Edoardo Bertero earned his MD degree at the University of Genova, where he pursued an experimental thesis and graduated with honors in 2016 under the supervision of Pietro Ameri. He subsequently pursued a PhD at the University of Würzburg (Germany) in the field of mitochondrial cardiomyopathies under the supervision of Christoph Maack, and graduated with honors in December 2021. He his now Cardiology fellow at the University of Genova. His main interest is in translational research aimed at discovering mechanisms of cardiovascular disease, with a special emphasis on how the processes of excitation-contraction coupling and mitochondrial bioenergetics are intertwined and contribute to disease progression in heart failure and inherited cardiomyopathies.