Prof. Giuseppe Filardo earned his Medicine and Surgery Degree at the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, and the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Specialization at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna, Italy). He was a research fellow at Rush Cartilage Restoration Center in Chicago (USA) and obtained his PhD in “cartilage regenerative treatments” at the Bologna University. He completed an Executive MBA at the Bologna Business School. He is Treasurer and Executive Board member of ICRS, past-president of the Cartilage and Regenerative Medicine Committee of SIAGASCOT, member of the ESSKA Orthobiologic Initiative, member of the ISAKOS Biologics Task Force, member of the Editorial Boards of AJSM, JEO, Joints, and OJSM journals, and reviewer for KSSTA and Cartilage journals. Winner of several research awards and participant to several national and international research projects on orthopaedic biotechnologies, his main clinical and translational research activities are currently performed at the Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Switzerland, and the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy. Professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. Author and editor of the book “Orthobiologics: Injectable Therapies for the Musculoskeletal System”, ISAKOS-ICRS-Springer, 2022. Author of more than 400 publications; Scopus H-index: 69; Google Scholar H-index: 83.