Joseph.e. Italiano
Pharmaceuticals
VcanBio Center for Translational Biotechnology
China
Biography
Joseph.E. Italiano, Ph.D is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate biologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is one of the top scientists in the field of platelet biogenesis and the first one to invent the microfluid device for large scale generation of functional platelets from megakaryocytes derived from both human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells. His scientific interests have long focused on megakaryocyte and platelet biology. His early research focused on using live cell microscopy to identify the basic principles of platelet production.
Research Interest
Megakaryocyte and platelet biology, Pharmacology
