Tissue Science and Regenerative Medicine

Biography

Ignazio Castagliuolo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova. He graduated in 1987 in Medicine. He spent 7 years at Boston University and Harvard Medical Center in Boston performing scientific research in the field of Gastrointestinal inflammation. Then he moved back to Padua were he has performed research mainly focused on cell biology, bioengineering and molecular medicine. He actively collaborates with the Departments of Industrial Engineering of University of Padua to develop innovative scaffolds to support colonization and differentiation of different cell populations. He has published 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and he is an active reviewer for several scientific journals.

Abstract

Abstract : Hydrogel scaffolds in tissue engineering of the enteric nervous system