Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Valeria Chiono
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
E-mail address: valeria.chiono@polito.it
Valeria Chiono has a Master Degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy. She is currently Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research is aimed at the design of innovative bioengineering approaches to solve key problems in regenerative medicine and nanomedicine, and includes the development of bioactive materials and interfaces, tissue engineering, materials characterization, in vitro tissue models, drug delivery and non-viral gene therapy. One main research topic is cardiac tissue engineering. She has been the coordinator of several research projects, including STARIGEN FIRB2010 project, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, on the preparation of biomimetic scaffolds for cardiac regeneration. In 2017 she has been granted the ERC Consolidator project BIORECAR (contract number: 772168; http://www.biorecar.polito.it/) on advanced strategies for cardiac regeneration by direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes by an injectable hydrogel releasing miRNA-loaded nanoparticles. In BIORECAR in vitro models of fibrotic human cardiac tissue are also developed for preclinical investigation. Furthermore, she manages BIORECAR Laboratory at Politecnico di Torino. She is the main lecturer of the following courses at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino: “Engineering for regenerative medicine”, “Cell and tissue engineering” and “Laboratory of Tissues and Physiological Processes' Models”. In 2021, she has been appointed Deputy-Director of Centro3R. She is author of 123 scientific publications (H-index: 33 Scopus, 38 Google Scholar) and 5 patents in the field of biomaterials, tissue engineering and nanomedicine. h4>
Editorial Board
Gianni Ciofani
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Smart Bio-Interfaces, Pontedera, Italy
Serena Danti
Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Unversity of Pisa, Italy
Ana Ferreira-Duarte
School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Piergiorgio Gentile
School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Anwarul Hasan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hossein Hosseinkhani
Innovation Center for Advanced Technology, Matrix Inc., New York, NY, USA
Clara Mattu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Santos Merino
IK4 - Tekniker, Eibar, Spain
Liliana Liverani
R&D Officer, DGS S.p.A., Rome, Italy
Alice Ravizza
USE-ME-D srl, Turin, Italy
Ipsita Roy
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shieffield, Shieffield, United Kingdom
Jochen Salber
University Clinic Knappschaft, Bochum, Germany
Chiara Tonda-Turo
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Giovanni Vozzi
Centro E. Piaggio, Bionengineering and Robotics Research Centre, Pisa, Italy
Cuie Wen
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Yeong Wai Yee
Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Cluster, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
