Giuseppe Filardo, MD, PhD, MBA, is Professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, USI, Head of Clinical Research at the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale of Lugano, Switzerland, and Senior Research Advisor at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute for the Applied and Translational Research Center, Bologna, Italy. Specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna, Italy. Research fellow at the Rush Cartilage Restoration Center in Chicago, USA. Traveling fellow in SIGASCOT-GOTS and in Peterson-SANOFI ICRS fellowships. PhD on “cartilage regenerative treatments” at the Bologna University, Italy. Executive MBA at the Bologna Business School.
Chair of the “Fellowship, Scholarship & Research Grant Committee” of ICRS. Past-president of the “Cartilage and Regenerative Medicine Committee” of the Italian Society SIAGASCOT. Member of the “Orthobiologic Initiative” of ESSKA and of the Biologics Task Force of ISAKOS. Member of the Editorial Board of the Orthopedic Journal of Sports Medicine (OJSM), the Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics (JEO), the Joints journal, and the American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM). Reviewer for KSSTA and Cartilage journals. ICRS Fellow Member, more than 150 contributions to ICRS events, 5 ICRS awards for cartilage-related research. Editor and author of the book “Orthobiologics: Injectable Therapies for the Musculoskeletal System”, ISAKOS-ICRS-Springer, 2022. Author of more than 400 articles and chapters; Scopus H-Index: 67, Google Scholar H-index: 81.