Dr. Alessio Cantore Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy

Alessio Cantore is an Associate Professor of Tissue Biology at San Raffaele University and a Group Leader at the San Raffaele – Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan, Italy. He oversees the liver gene therapy research unit and supervises a team of more than 10 people. His research interests... read moreinclude lentiviral vector engineering, liver tissue dynamics, and the translational applications of liver-directed gene transfer and gene editing. Recently, his work has focused on two related but distinct areas: one more fundamental, investigating liver stem cells and tissue dynamics, and another more translational, concerning inherited hepatic metabolic diseases. He began his laboratory training at the University of Bologna and continued as an undergraduate at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy. He was then admitted to the international Ph.D. Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology. During his Ph.D. and postdoctoral training, he focused on liver-directed lentiviral gene therapy, leading projects ranging from preclinical studies in non-human primates to vector engineering and efficacy/safety assessments. He is a scientific co-founder of GeneSpire, a start-up aiming to develop liver-directed lentiviral gene therapy for the treatment of rare inherited diseases affecting liver function, backed by Sofinnova investment funds.