Isotta Chimenti is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, and Junior Fellow of the Superior School for Advanced Studies at “La Sapienza” University of Rome. She is eligible as Associate Professor, according to the Italian National Scientific Qualification program. Her education includes a Master of Science in Medical Biotechnology, and a PhD in Experimental Medicine. She has been a postdoc fellow at Johns Hopkins University, at Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, and at Pasteur Institute – Italy. Her research activity is focused on regenerative medicine, in particular on cardiac cell therapy and cardiac tissue engineering, adult stem cells, and oxidative stress in the cardiovascular system. She is funded as PI by several Italian National grants, and participant in a European Horizon 2020 project. She co-authored over 55 Scopus indexed publications.

Yonggang Lv received the Ph.D. degree in Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering with specialty in bioengineering from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, in 2005. He served as a postdoctoral research associate/research fellow at the City College of the City University of New York and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He joined the Bioengineering College at Chongqing University as Full Professor in March 2009 and won the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education of China in 2010. He became a senior visiting scholar in Prof. Shu Chien’s laboratory at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from July to October 2014. He has published over 100 peer referred journal papers, edited 3 books, and holds 9 China patents. His research interests include mechanobiology and regenerative medicine, stem cell biology, and cancer biology. Dr. Lv is the Vice Chairman of hemorheology committee in Chinese Society of Microcirculation. He is an associate editor of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing and an editorial member of Biotechnology Letters.