Alessandro Bertero

He began his training with the late Guido Tarone at the University of Turin in Italy, where he investigated the Melusin signalling pathway in cardiac hypertrophy and obtained a BSci (2009) and an MSci (2011). Having being awarded a British Heart Foundation Graduate Fellowship, he moved to the University of Cambridge in the UK. Working with Ludovic Vallier he obtained an MRes (2012) and a PhD (2016) by studying the mechanisms by which TGF beta signalling controls early differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells. Alessandro performed his postdoctoral training with Chuck Murry at the University of Washington in the US with the support of an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (2017). During this time he determined the role of three dimensional chromatin organization dynamics during human cardiogenesis and in inherited dilated cardiomyopathy. Alessandro launched his group at the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine in 2019. In 2021, he relocated the lab to his alma mater in Italy thanks to the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation Career Development Award. He now leads the Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Heart Engineering & Developmental Genomics et al (HEDGe lab).