Prof. Giuseppe Filardo earned his Degree in Medicine and Surgery in 2004 at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Italy, and the specialization in Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna, Italy) in 2009. He was a research fellow at Rush Cartilage Restoration Center in Chicago (IL), USA, and obtained his PhD in “cartilage regenerative treatments” at the Bologna University, Italy, in 2014. He completed an Executive MBA at the Bologna Business School in 2022. He is Executive Board member of the International society ICRS, past-president of the Cartilage and Regenerative Medicine Committee, Scientific Coordinator, and Executive Board member of the Italian society SIAGASCOT, member of the Orthobiologic Initiative of the European society ESSKA, member of the Biologics Task Force of the International society ISAKOS, member of the Editorial Boards of AJSM, KSSTA, JEO, Joints, and OJSM journals, and reviewer for JCJP, JISAKOS, and Cartilage journals. Winner of several research awards and participant to several national and international research projects on orthopaedic biotechnologies, his clinical and translational research activities are currently mainly performed at the Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Switzerland. Professor (titolare) at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. Author of more than 400 publications; Scopus H index: 69; Google Scholar H index: 85. Author and editor of the book “Orthobiologics: Injectable Therapies for the Musculoskeletal System”, ISAKOS-ICRS-Springer, 2022. Main interests are regenerative medicine (biomaterials, mesenchymal stem/stromal cells and platelet growth factors) and new treatments for musculoskeletal tissues, in particular meniscus, tendon, cartilage lesions, and osteoarthritis, as well as the development of more performant research mechanisms – www.researcharchitect.org.