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Alessandra Moretti conducts research in the fields of stem cell biology and cardiac development. Her research focuses on cardiovascular progenitors specification, heart cell lineages, cellular plasticity, and human induced pluripotent stem cells as model systems for studying cardiovascular disease and regeneration. Moretti studied chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Padua, where she obtained her doctorate in 1997. After completing her degree, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, before becoming the head of the molecular cardiology research group at TUM's university hospital, Klinikum rechts der Isar, in 2006. In 2015, she was appointed associate professor of regenerative medicine in the field of cardiovascular disease at TUM. She has received several prestigious awards, including the ERC Advanced Grant in 2018 and the Innovation Prize from the German Medical Faculties in 2013. She has also been recognized with the Göttingen Academy of Sciences Award in Biology in 2012 and is a principal investigator at the German Center of Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) since 2011.
Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany
Teaching and research in regenerative medicine focusing on cardiovascular diseases.
Technical University of Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar • Munich, Germany
Leading a research group focused on molecular cardiology.
University of California, San Diego; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School • San Diego, CA; Boston, MA
Conducted postdoctoral research in cardiovascular biology.