RM Symposium - Keynote talk (Dr. Giuseppe Orlando, Wake Forest University)

Join us on Tuesday April 11, 2017 to hear from Dr. Giuseppe Orlando (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina)

Schedule of Event - April 11 and 12
Attendees are welcome to stay for the student' talks however, lunch is not included.

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Arrival: 7:45am
Time of talk: 8:00AM - 9:15AM

How to See Regenerative Medicine: Ally or Competitor?

Giuseppe Orlando, MD, PhD

Giuseppe Orlando, MD, PhD, Marie Curie Fellow, is a transplant surgeon scientist, specializing in kidney and pancreas transplantation, and abdominal organ bioengineering and regeneration.
Dr. Orlando's main achievements have been in the field of steroid-free immunosuppression, immunosuppression minimization, clinical tolerance after liver transplantation, and the development of platforms for renal, small bowel and endocrine pancreas bioengineering and regeneration research. The main goal for future investigations is to bioengineer and implant in humans renal organoids that are able to exert the proper physiological renal function, as well as pancreatic islets or insulin-producing cells and segments of small bowel. The ability to produce kidneys, insulin-producing cells and small bowel from patients' own cells will revolutionize transplant medicine.
He originally hails from Rome, Italy, where he grew up, matriculated, attended medical school, and received training in general surgery and transplantation. He also participated in fellowships within Paris and Brussels. In 2006-2008, he was a practicing transplant surgeon at the University of L'Aquila in Italy. In 2008-2011, he received and implemented the distinguished Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, for which he spent 2 years at the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine (Winston Salem, USA) and one year at the Transplant Research Immunology Group (Oxford, UK), specializing in organ bioengineering and regeneration and transplant immunology, respectively. Dr. Orlando has authored more than 120 research papers, review articles, and book chapters. He is a member of numerous transplant oriented societies and is on the board and acts as a regular reviewer for a number of relevant journals.