Professor Francesco Paneni

Francesco Paneni is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Zurich and Head of the Cardiometabolic Division at the Department of Cardiology, Zurich University Hospital. He is also Director of the Center for Translational and Experimental Cardiology (CTEC) within the Department of Cardiology. He earned his MD and PhD at the University of Rome “Sapienza”. During his training in Cardiology, he worked as research fellow at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York under the supervision of Prof. Valentin Fuster. After his PhD, he trained as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology, University of Zurich and the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) at Karolinska Institute, Sweden. A main goal of Paneni’s lab is to characterize the epigenetic mechanisms (DNA methylation, histone modifications and non-coding RNAs) of myocardial and vascular damage in the setting of obesity and diabetes.