Giuseppe Orlando

Giuseppe Orlando hails from Rome, Italy, where he attended medical school and received training in general surgery and transplantation. He also participated in clinical fellowships in Paris (2000) and Brussels (2001-2004). 2006-2008, he was a practicing transplant surgeon at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. 2008-2011, he was the recipient of the distinguished Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship through the European Commission Framework Program. During this time, he specialized in regenerative medicine (RM) and transplant immunology at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston Salem, USA, and the Transplant Research Immunology Group, University of Oxford, UK. At first, his research focus was immunosuppression-free transplantation. More recently, his research focus has shifted towards RM and aims at developing strategies and platforms for the bio-engineering, regeneration and repair of abdominal organs, as well as at supporting the idea that organ bio-engineering and regeneration should become the new Holy Grail for modern transplantation. He is currently an associate professor of surgery and RM at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He serves to IPITA, CTRMS, AST, ISCT and TERMIS in different capacities. He is the recipient of the 2017 ASTS Rising Star in Transplantation Award and of the 2020 AST Basic Science Investigator Award. He is the chair of the AST-TERMIS cosponsored webinar series. His H-index is 51, has 8,689 citations, and counts about 300 manuscripts and book chapters. He is the first author of 5 books on transplant and RM, and is the editor in chief of a new book series published by Elsevier-AP on transplant and RM.