Giulio Cossu
Current Position
2013- :Professor of Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester. Previous Positions: 2012-2013 :Professor of Human Stem Cell Biology, , University College London. 2009-2011: Director, Division of Regenerative Medicine, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan 2005-2011: Professor of Histology and Embryology, University of Milan 2000-2001: Director, Stem Cell Research Institute, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan. 1994-2005: Professor of Histology and Embryology, University of Rome Sapienza 1993-1994: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Istitut Pasteur, Paris 1986-1993: Associate Professor of Histology, University of Rome Sapienza 1983-1986: Researcher, Institute Histology, University of Rome « La Sapienza » 1980-1983: USPHS Fogarty Fellow Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania 1978-1980: CNR Fellow, Institute Histology, University of Rome « La Sapienza »
Areas of interest
Myogenic cell lineages; Myogenic determination; Muscle gene and cell therapy, Pluripotent stem cells.
Selected publications
Sampaolesi et al Science 301, 487-492, 2003; Sampaolesi et al. Nature, 444:574-9, 2006. Dellavalle et al. Nature Cell Biol. 9:255-267, 2007; Gargioli et al. Nature Med. 14:973-8; Messina et al. Cell 140, 554-566; Tedesco et al. Science Translational Medicine 3:96ra78, 2011; Dellavalle et al. Nature Comm. 2:499, 2011. Tedesco et al. Science Translational Medicine 4:140ra89, 2012; Cappellari et al. Develop. Cell 24, 586-599.