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Alessandra Moretti

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CURRENT POSITION / JOB:

Professor for Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
First Department of Medicine
Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich
Ismaninger Str.22, Munich 81675, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)89-4140-2350

HOME TOWN / COUNTRY: Italy

FORMER POSITIONS / TRAINING / STUDIES:

Academic Education
1992 Diploma in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (summa cum laude),
Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Advanced Professional Degrees
1997 PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology (excellent), Dept. of Biomedical and Experimental Sciences
University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Positions held

  • 1997-2002 Postdoc, Cardiology Division, First Department of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • 2002-2005 Project scientist, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, USA
  • 2005-2008 Instructor in Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • 2006-present Group leader in molecular and cellular cardiology, Cardiology Division, First Department of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • 2015 – present Full Professor (W3) and Chair of Regenerative Medicine in cardiovascular Disease, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin I, TU Munich
  • 2019 – present Professor Adjunct Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Awards and Honors

  • 1992 Research award for young scientists (Bracco Companies)
  • 1993 Boards in Pharmacy
  • 1998 Astra-Zeneca Award for Young Investigators in Cardiovascular Science
  • 2012 Göttingen Academy of Sciences Award for Biology
  • 2013 Innovationspreises der Deutschen Hochschulmedizin e.V.
  • 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant

PREFERRED LANGUAGES: English, Italian, German

STIPENDS / GRANTS:

  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grant 01GN0826: Generation of Isl1+ cardiac progenitors from reprogrammed fibroblasts (2008-2011)
  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Programme Grant 923, Project TP10: Modeling LQT2 Syndrome in cardiac myocytes from patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (2010-2013)
  • German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Grant: iPSC disease models in cardiovascular medicine (2011-2018)
  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Programme Grant SFB/TRR152, Project TP17: Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell models to elucidate the role of TRP channels in the pathogenesis of CPVT1 and of PFHBI (2014-2018)

E-MAIL ADDRESS / HOMEPAGE: amoretti@mytum.de


https://med1.mri.tum.de/de/lehre/regenerative-medizin-kardiovaskulaerer-erkrankungen