Giorgio Raimondi is the Associate Scientific Director of the Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Research Laboratory and Assistant Professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Born and raised in Italy, he obtained a Master of Science degree (advanced studies in immunology) through a joint course between the University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan and the Institut Pasteur in Paris. He then obtained his Ph.D.(biotechnology with a focus on immunological tolerance) at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Dr. Raimondi’s postdoctoral studies were at the University of Pittsburgh’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, where he forged his expertise on T lymphocytes and regulatory T cell immunobiology with a focus on development of new immunoregulation strategies for solid organ transplant rejection. Dr. Raimondi joined Johns Hopkins in 2013.