Taraballi, Francesca (Faculty Profile)

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Francesca Taraballi	Associated Profiles
Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute


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Biomimetic Scaffold, Immune Engineering, Osteoarthritis, Biocompatible Materials, Mesenchymal Stromal Cells, Collagen, Macrophages, Stem Cells

Professional Preparation
Research and Expertise
Appointments

Professional Preparation

Degree	Major	Institution	Year
PhD	Nanostructures and Nanotechnologies	University of Milan	2009
MS	Biochemistry	University of Milan	2005
BS	Biological Sciences	University of Milan	2004

Research and Expertise

Research Interests

Regenerative medicine is a multidisciplinary field that aims to restore, maintain or enhance tissues and organ functions. Regeneration of tissue can be achieved by the combination of living cells and materials, which acts as a scaffold to support cell proliferation and, in the special case of stem cells, allows for correct differentiation. Nowadays, the importance of the inflammatory players in the regeneration process is becoming clear, and it is started to be a crucial point to boost the tissue restoration, especially in those tissues that lacking of this capacity (e.g. nervous systems, cardiac tissues) or they lost it for systemic factors (diabetes, HIV, genetic diseases). I'm focusing my current research toward this direction. Although the challenge of this field requires many different skills from biomaterials design, synthesis and functionalization to the cell and molecular immunology, I personally believe that it could be a new successful strategy to develop translational solution in tissue engineering.

Publications/Creative Works

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Appointments

Title	Department / School	Institution
Assistant Professor	Center for Musculoskeletal Regeneration	The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

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